Remembering America's First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal Islamists

http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/19/remembering-americas-first-and-longest-forgotten-war-on-tribal-islamists/
Date Written:  2019-12-19
Publisher:  Counter Punch
Year Published:  2019
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23945

Here are the relevant points when it comes to the Moro War (which will sound grimly familiar in a twenty-first-century forever-war context): the United States military shouldn’t have been there in the first place; the war was ultimately an operational and strategic failure, made more so by American hubris; and it should be seen, in retrospect, as (using a term General David Petraeus applied to our present Afghan War) the nation's first "generational struggle."

Subject Headings

• War