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Description:This book has footnotes, pictures, and charts. It was published in 2018 by Combat Studies Institute Press, Army University Press. “The Global War on Terror turned out to be, in one important aspect, what was originally predicted — a generational struggle, although one being waged by only a small percentage of the current generation of Americans. While Afghanistan and Iraq garnered most of the public attention in the war, other smaller theaters have been active and one in particular could provide a framework for future operations. Specifically the US effort in the southern Philippines was a complex generational effort that, viewed over the long term, was remarkably successful in achieving US strategic goals in the region. Operation Enduring Freedom–Philippines (OEF-P) — as the US involvement in the southern Philippines was dubbed — was quite different from its counterpart in Afghanistan. Rather than a dramatic battle against terrorists and the establishment of a new government, OEF-P became, for the Americans, a largely steady-state application of multiple US government resources to fundamentally alter the relationship between the Philippine government and security forces and the people of the southern Philippines in support of American and Philippine strategic goals. OEF-P changed the situation in the southern Philippines from one in which various terrorist groups openly conducted operations while Philippine government institutions behaved as a besieged force or occupying force, to one in which the Philippine security forces were accepted by the local population as a legitimate presence in the region. The terrorists, while still deadly, were reduced to a chronic law enforcement problem.” “What became Operation Enduring Freedom–Philippines began following 9/11 in 2002, when the United States sought to open a second front in the larger war against Islamic terrorist networks by engaging al Qaeda-linked organizations such as the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and Jemaah Islamiya (JI), organizations that were taking advantage of the relatively ungoverned space in southern Mindanao and in the Sulu Archipelago. In this sovereignty vacuum, violent terrorist groups such as JI and the ASG were able to operate with impunity. One catalyst for US forces to enter the region was the kidnapping of an American missionary couple who were taken, along with others, from the Philippine island of Palawan on 27 May 2001 and brought to the region. Initially employing Task Force 510, and later Joint Special Operations Task Force–Philippines (JSOTF-P), the United States worked to increase the capability of the Philippine security forces (including both the armed forces and later the Philippine National Police) to defeat ASG and JI. Concurrently, JSOTF-P conducted Civil Military Operations (CMO) and Information Operations (IO) throughout the region to help Philippine government institutions enhance their legitimacy in the region. In all these endeavors, the long-term goal was to build the capacity of the Philippine security forces, strengthen the legitimacy of the Philippine government throughout the southern Philippines, and end the power vacuum in which the ASG and JI had flourished. About the author: Dr. Barry M. Stentiford is a Professor of Military History at the US Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies and the Director of its Advanced Strategic Leadership Studies Program. His books include The American Home Guard: The State Militia in the Twentieth Century (Texas A&M Press, 2002); The Jim Crow Encyclopedia (co-editor, Greenwood Press, 2008); The Tuskegee Airmen (Greenwood, 2012); and The Richardson Light Guard of Wakefield Massachusetts: A Town Militia in War and Peace, 1851–1975 (McFarland, 2013). An officer in the US Army Reserve, Dr.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Success in the Shadows: Operation Enduring Freedom–Philippines and the Global War on Terror, 2002–2015. To get started finding Success in the Shadows: Operation Enduring Freedom–Philippines and the Global War on Terror, 2002–2015, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book has footnotes, pictures, and charts. It was published in 2018 by Combat Studies Institute Press, Army University Press. “The Global War on Terror turned out to be, in one important aspect, what was originally predicted — a generational struggle, although one being waged by only a small percentage of the current generation of Americans. While Afghanistan and Iraq garnered most of the public attention in the war, other smaller theaters have been active and one in particular could provide a framework for future operations. Specifically the US effort in the southern Philippines was a complex generational effort that, viewed over the long term, was remarkably successful in achieving US strategic goals in the region. Operation Enduring Freedom–Philippines (OEF-P) — as the US involvement in the southern Philippines was dubbed — was quite different from its counterpart in Afghanistan. Rather than a dramatic battle against terrorists and the establishment of a new government, OEF-P became, for the Americans, a largely steady-state application of multiple US government resources to fundamentally alter the relationship between the Philippine government and security forces and the people of the southern Philippines in support of American and Philippine strategic goals. OEF-P changed the situation in the southern Philippines from one in which various terrorist groups openly conducted operations while Philippine government institutions behaved as a besieged force or occupying force, to one in which the Philippine security forces were accepted by the local population as a legitimate presence in the region. The terrorists, while still deadly, were reduced to a chronic law enforcement problem.” “What became Operation Enduring Freedom–Philippines began following 9/11 in 2002, when the United States sought to open a second front in the larger war against Islamic terrorist networks by engaging al Qaeda-linked organizations such as the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and Jemaah Islamiya (JI), organizations that were taking advantage of the relatively ungoverned space in southern Mindanao and in the Sulu Archipelago. In this sovereignty vacuum, violent terrorist groups such as JI and the ASG were able to operate with impunity. One catalyst for US forces to enter the region was the kidnapping of an American missionary couple who were taken, along with others, from the Philippine island of Palawan on 27 May 2001 and brought to the region. Initially employing Task Force 510, and later Joint Special Operations Task Force–Philippines (JSOTF-P), the United States worked to increase the capability of the Philippine security forces (including both the armed forces and later the Philippine National Police) to defeat ASG and JI. Concurrently, JSOTF-P conducted Civil Military Operations (CMO) and Information Operations (IO) throughout the region to help Philippine government institutions enhance their legitimacy in the region. In all these endeavors, the long-term goal was to build the capacity of the Philippine security forces, strengthen the legitimacy of the Philippine government throughout the southern Philippines, and end the power vacuum in which the ASG and JI had flourished. About the author: Dr. Barry M. Stentiford is a Professor of Military History at the US Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies and the Director of its Advanced Strategic Leadership Studies Program. His books include The American Home Guard: The State Militia in the Twentieth Century (Texas A&M Press, 2002); The Jim Crow Encyclopedia (co-editor, Greenwood Press, 2008); The Tuskegee Airmen (Greenwood, 2012); and The Richardson Light Guard of Wakefield Massachusetts: A Town Militia in War and Peace, 1851–1975 (McFarland, 2013). An officer in the US Army Reserve, Dr.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Success in the Shadows: Operation Enduring Freedom–Philippines and the Global War on Terror, 2002–2015. To get started finding Success in the Shadows: Operation Enduring Freedom–Philippines and the Global War on Terror, 2002–2015, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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