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Parent topics
- Phillipines [r]: A country made up of over seven thousand islands, some of substantial size, between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam [e]
- Insurgency [r]: A wide range of political and military actions intended to change a government, through means considered illegal by that government. [e]
- Counterinsurgency [r]: Theory and practice of defeating insurgency without creating even more local resistance or strategic failures [e]
- World War II [r]: War between the Allies (most notably the UK, US and Soviet Union) and the Axis (principally Germany and Japan) 1939–1945. [e]
- Japanese occupation of the Phillipines [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Phillipine insurgencies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
Subtopics
- Ramon Magsaysay [r]: Defense Minister, and then President of the Republic of the Phillipines, credited for successfully ending the Hukbalahap insurgency [e]
- Edward Lansdale [r]: A U.S. Air Force general on assignment to the CIA, key counterinsurgency advisor to Phillipine President Ramon Magsaysay, involved in French Indochina and South Vietnam 1954-1960, although lost influence in U.S. policymaking through bureaucratic infighting [e]
