The Question of External Control Over the Philippine Communist Party Insurgency.

Abstract

The Philippines is a centerpiece for U.S. political and forward deployment military strategies. As they relate to the Philippines, these strategies are currently being threatened, however, by a near revolutionary change in government in Manila, Soviet moves in the region, and a resurgence of the communist insurgency. This paper, wholly based on open-source material, focuses on the Philippine insurgency. A current priority U.S. policy concern is that this anti-American insurgency could seriously threaten U.S. interests in Asia and the Pacific by gaining control or significant influence in Manila. A concurrent U.S. concern is that either the Soviet Union or China, the major communist states, could translate material aid into significant control over the Philippine insurgency. This paper examines how susceptible the Philippine Communist Party (the CPP) and its military arm, the New Peoples Army (the NPA), are to control by either Moscow or Beijing through ideological or material support.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 28, 1988
Accession Number
ADA195303

Entities

People

  • Gary D. Kessler

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asia
  • Communism
  • Congress
  • Governments
  • Insurgency
  • Law
  • Materials
  • Military Operations
  • Military Strategy
  • National Governments
  • New York
  • Security
  • Southeast Asia
  • United States
  • Universities
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges

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  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union