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Strategies and Tactics of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
- Publisher
- Penerbit Universiti Utara Malaysia
- Year
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 124
- ISBN
- 9789675311154
- Availability
- Out of print
No longer sold new: look for it in a library, or for a used copy.
About the book
How the MILF fought and negotiated, read as strategy, from a doctoral thesis by a scholar who now heads research at the Development Academy of the Bangsamoro.
Shamsuddin L. Taya studies the political, military and economic strategies and tactics of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in its fight to free the Bangsamoro homeland from the Government of the Republic of the Philippines. The book grew out of his 2006 PhD thesis at the International Islamic University Malaysia, which covered the years 1994 to 2005 and used an organisational approach.
It has 6 chapters: the historical background of the conflict; the MILF's structure, goals, capabilities and constraints; its political strategies; its military strategies and tactics; its economic strategies; and a conclusion. Taya drew on newspapers, speeches, press releases, joint communiqués, peace agreements and interviews with informed people.
He finds the MILF's strategies effective. They kept a splinter group alive and made it the strongest liberation movement in the region, a force that the government and regional and international players must reckon with. Penerbit Universiti Utara Malaysia published the book in 2009. Taya was a visiting scholar at that university from 2007 to 2019 and later headed the research division of the Development Academy of the Bangsamoro.
From repo.uum.edu.my, cendekia.unisza.edu.my, studentrepo.iium.edu.my, web.archive.org, openlibrary.org.
This book reveals the strategies and tactics of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the Southern Phillipines. It looks at the political, military and economic strategies and tactics of the MILF in its quest to liberate the Bangsamoro homeland and its people from the clutches of the Government of the Republic of the Phillipines (GRP) and its agents.
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