Importance of Cultural Awareness to the Counterinsurgency Efforts in Southern Philippines

<p>The Muslim insurgency in Southern Philippines has gone on for decades. The efforts to resolve it is heavily influenced by sociocultural dynamics that have developed and prevailed through the years. The Philippine military understands that awareness of these sociocultural dynamics is important to its counterinsurgency campaign. Understanding is however different from actually doing something about it. This study therefore endeavored to illuminate the importance of cultural awareness in so far as the Philippine Army‘s counterinsurgency campaign in the Southern Philippines is concerned and analyzed if the current programs of the Philippine Army have sufficiently addressed this aspect of the campaign. Further this study should provide a factual evaluation as to gaps in the current counterinsurgency approach in Southern Philippines as far as cultural awareness is concerned. In the end it is the aspiration of the study to provide inputs that could eventually help improve the counterinsurgency efforts of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in Southern Philippines.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>