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The area between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia is a key hub of terrorist and related criminal activity in Southeast Asia. The Coast Watch System was designed to improve maritime domain awareness in the region but has some issues to overcome.
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This book examines six case studies of insurgencies from around the world to determine the key factors necessary for a successful transition from counterinsurgency to a more stable situation. The authors review the causes of each insurgency and the key players involved, and examine what the government did right — or wrong — to bring the insurgency to an end and to transition to greater stability.
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Six historic counterinsurgency operations are examined to determine which tactics, techniques, and procedures led to success and which led to failure, with the hope that U.S. counterinsurgency operations in the future can learn from past lessons.
COMMENTARY
Published commentary by RAND staff
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This report summarizes the research conducted in a project entitled "The Effectiveness of U.S. Military Training Activities in Promoting Internal Defense and Development in the Third World."
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In order to maintain a military presence in many parts of the world the United States relies on access to foreign bases.
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Assesses the value to the United States and to the Republic of the Philippines of U.S. access to military facilities in the Philippines.
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The collapse of Marcos's regime in the Philippines caught most observers off guard. Country assessments produced by U.S. government, Congressional, and private business sources before that downfall were examined to determine their usefulness...
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A look at the achievements and problems facing the five ASEAN nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore). Since its formation in 1967, ASEAN has made large strides in political and economic gains. The biggest problem now ...
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The Note addresses issues of modeling schooling choice, and of estimating the determinants of schooling attainment and enrollment rates in a low-income rural economy, like the Philippines.
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The RAND Corporation through a grant from AID held a seminar in December 1977 to review the Philippine agrarian reform program. Participants examined social, economic, environmental and political ramifications of land redistribution to determine fact...
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Discusses the imposition of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines in September 1972. The country was suffering from grinding poverty, widespread corruption, a stalled political and judicial system, and internal violence. Thre...
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Survey of findings on the social, political, and economic state of the Philippine nation. Analysis indicates that among the less-developed countries, the Philippines is not a nation in a general massive social crisis. Classical metaphors about the polity and economy of less-developed countries are misleading when applied to the Philippine experience.
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An empirical analysis of the interrelationship between fertility and socioeconomic behavior of families, designed to give insight into the relative merits of various policies affecting population growth. Most studies of the causes and consequences of...
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A statistical study of conditions related to control of barrios in Central Luzon by Huk rebels.
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An analysis of the regional pattern of Huk control in the Philippines in terms of certain cultural, economic, and geographic variables.
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A proposal that econometric methods be used to test theories about the determinants of rebellion. A
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A discussion of the nonmilitary measures taken in countering insurgencies in the Philippines and Malaya.
PEOPLE
Associate Political Scientist
Ph.D. in political science, Northwestern University
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