Bangsamoro separatism and classical counterinsurgency: reconsidering revolutionary war in the southern Philippines

• Main Author: Bukit, Mathew L.
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; Bangsamoro Separatism; Philippines
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159976
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The dominant history of Muslim armed separatism in the Philippines obscures the insurgency’s character. Insurgents espouse revolutionary war, even though this mischaracterizes the interests constituted in the insurgent cause. Patricio Abinales’ critiques of the orthodoxy are applied to disambiguate...