Honestly Chris62, there must be something wrong with your reading comprehension:
First of all, that comes from a site devoted to the history of a US regiment involved in the war: hardly a flaming revisionist source. The Phillipines insurgency lasted 3 years: 100,000 US soldiers were involved in it. Unless you find a "non-revisionist source" that claims a much lower number of US forces were involved, then right now you look like a petulant child proven wrong but unwilling to admit it. And in a time when it took a good many weeks to go from the US to the Phillipines, my guess is that the amount of rotation of units was not one unit every month, so that the regular number of troops involved in the Phillipines had to be high.
Yes, concentration camps existed: as I said before, but you ignored, the act of rounding up all the people of an area, putting them in camps under gaurd, so that you could go hunt the guerilas without them being able to join with the civilian population, was a common practice in the early part of the 20th century, started by the Spanish in Cuba, immitated by the English in South Africa, and the US in the Phillipines. You Chris have given no sources. My definition of revisionist history is one that ignores facts, or makes them up, or makes claims devoid of fact and based solely on opinon. GIVE US A SINGLE SOURCE FOR YOUR ASSERTIONS, CHRIS, JUST ONE.Otherwise, it is you who prove the point about "revisionist" history.
First of all, that comes from a site devoted to the history of a US regiment involved in the war: hardly a flaming revisionist source. The Phillipines insurgency lasted 3 years: 100,000 US soldiers were involved in it. Unless you find a "non-revisionist source" that claims a much lower number of US forces were involved, then right now you look like a petulant child proven wrong but unwilling to admit it. And in a time when it took a good many weeks to go from the US to the Phillipines, my guess is that the amount of rotation of units was not one unit every month, so that the regular number of troops involved in the Phillipines had to be high.
Yes, concentration camps existed: as I said before, but you ignored, the act of rounding up all the people of an area, putting them in camps under gaurd, so that you could go hunt the guerilas without them being able to join with the civilian population, was a common practice in the early part of the 20th century, started by the Spanish in Cuba, immitated by the English in South Africa, and the US in the Phillipines. You Chris have given no sources. My definition of revisionist history is one that ignores facts, or makes them up, or makes claims devoid of fact and based solely on opinon. GIVE US A SINGLE SOURCE FOR YOUR ASSERTIONS, CHRIS, JUST ONE.Otherwise, it is you who prove the point about "revisionist" history.
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