The Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines (JSOTF-P) indirect approach to irregular warfare (IW) offers senior U.S. policy makers and military commanders a suitable model worthy of consideration for conducting long-term military operations...
The adversaries faced on today’s battlefields are no longer deploy nor fighting along conventional norms similar to WWII or the cold war; rather unevenly using guerilla tactics and with the willing or coerced cooperation of the populace. In order...
The adversaries faced on today’s battlefields are no longer arrayed nor fighting along conventional norms similar to WWII or the cold war; rather asymmetrically using guerilla tactics and with the willing or coerced cooperation of the populace....
February 2004 my detachment received notification we would deploy to the Republic of the Philippines (RP) to train, advise, and assist the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in their struggle with insurgent groups operating in Mindanao and the...
Lieutenant Commander Michael Runkle, an explosive ordnance demolition (EOD) officer for the US Navy, commanded an EOD task unit within Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines on Zamboanga from November 2005 through January 2006 in support...
A psychological operations detachment commander with 5th Battalion, 4th PSYOP Group from October 2004 through July 2005, Major Dale Russell was in charge of the PSYOP support element for the Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines, part of...
The purpose of this monograph is to demonstrate the conflict between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Government of the Philippines is territorial and not religious in nature. To understand this conflict the past four-hundred years from...
A former medic with the 82nd Airborne Division and a Special Forces qualified medical sergeant, Captain Gregory McCrum was commissioned in May 2002 after graduating from the inter-service physician assistant (PA) program at Fort Sam Houston....
Lieutenant Commander Steven Morgenfeld served as a helicopter detachment (DET) officer-in-charge (OIC) from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 49 (HSL-49) onboard USS McCampbell in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines (OEF-P)....
In 2001-02, Lieutenant Colonel Mike Lwin served as operations officer for the Pacific Command PSYOP battalion - an element of the 4th PSYOP Group at Fort Bragg, North Carolina - that has since been renamed the 5th PSYOP Battalion, the unit that at...
Major Gittipong "Eddie" Paruchabutr deployed with his military information support team (MIST) from the 5th Psychological Operations Battalion, 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) in May 2004 to support Operation Enduring...