Arnold: The Moro War . But the post- 9/1. United States has battled such ferocious foes. The forgotten Moro War, lasting from 1. Philippines, was the first confrontation between American soldiers and their allies and a determined Muslim insurgency. The Moro War prefigured American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan more than superficially: It was a bitter, drawn- out conflict in which American policy and aims were fiercely contested between advocates of punitive military measures and proponents of conciliation. As in today's Middle East, American soldiers battled guerrillas in a foreign environment where the enemy knew the terrain and enjoyed local support.
The deadliest challenge was distinguishing civilians from suicidal attackers. Moroland became a crucible of leadership for the U.
S. Army, bringing the force that had fought the Civil War and the Plains Indian Wars into the twentieth century. The officer corps of the Moro campaign matured into the American generals of World War I. Chief among them was the future general John Pershing- who learned lessons in the island jungles that would guide his leadership in France. JAMES R. ARNOLD is a Civil War and military historian and author of more than twenty books, including Tet Offensive 1.
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Turning Point in Vietnam; Jungle of Snakes: A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq; The First Domino: Eisenhower, the Military, and America’s Intervention in Vietnam; Presidents Under Fire: Commanders in Chief in Victory and Defeat; Jeff Davis’s Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier; and Crisis in the Snows: Russia Confronts Napoleon, the Eylau Campaign 1. He lives on a farm near Lexington, Virginia.
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