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Philippines. United States. American victory. The Philippines becomes an unincorporated territory of the United States. Collapse of the First Philippine Republic. Moro Rebellion. (1902–1913) United States. Philippine Islands.
Wounded Japanese troops surrender to US and Filipino soldiers in Manila, 1945. The military history of the Philippines is characterized by wars between Philippine kingdoms and its neighbors in the precolonial era and then a period of struggle against colonial powers such as Spain and the United States, occupation by the Empire of Japan during World War II and participation in Asian conflicts ...
Hukbalahap. The Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon ( lit. 'People's Anti-Japanese Army' ), better known by the acronym Hukbalahap, was a Filipino communist guerrilla movement formed by the farmers of Central Luzon. They were originally formed to fight the Japanese, but extended their fight into a rebellion against the Philippine government, known as ...
The Philippine Expeditionary Force to Korea (PEFTOK) ( Tagalog: Ipinadalang Lakas ng Pilipinas sa Korea, Korean : 필리핀 한국 원정군; RR : Pillipin han-guk wonjeonggun, Spanish: Fuerza Expedicionaria Filipina a Corea or FEFC) was the Philippine Army contingent of the United Nations forces that fought in the Korean War (1950–1953).
The Battle of Yultong ( Korean : 율동 전투; RR : Yultong Jeontu; Filipino: Labanan sa Yultong ), [ 4] also known as the Battle of Puluodong ( Chinese: 普罗洞战斗; pinyin: Púluódòng Zhàndòu ), Battle of Yuldong, or Battle of Yuldong-ri, took place during the Korean War. It was fought between approximately 15,000 [better source ...
The New People's Army rebellion (often shortened to NPA rebellion, among other acronym-based names) is an ongoing conflict between the government of the Philippines and the New People's Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist [3] [9] Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). It is the world's longest ongoing communist ...
The two largest conflicts have been the Hukbalahap Rebellion of 1942–1954, and the ongoing rebellion of the New People's Army, which began in 1969 under the auspices of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). But various splinter groups have since separated from the CPP and have had a history of armed conflict with the Philippine ...
Luis Taruc. Luis Mangalus Taruc ( Tagalog pronunciation: [luˈis tɐˈɾuk]; June 21, 1913 – May 4, 2005) was a Filipino political figure and rebel during the agrarian unrest of the 1930s until the end of the Cold War. He was the leader of the Hukbalahap group (from Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon) between 1942 and 1950.