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John Joseph Pershing GCB (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948), [a] nicknamed "Black Jack", was an American army general who served as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War I from 1917 to 1920.
Noticing the Moros only fled to Bud Bagsak when provoked by government troops, General John J. Pershing devised a policy of keeping the troops in their island garrisons in the hopes the women and children would come down from the mountain cottas (fortified earthworks which were surrounded by deep ditches and camouflaged pits containing bamboo ...
The Moro Rebellion (1902–1913) was an armed conflict between the Moro people and the United States military during the Philippine–American War.The rebellion occurred after the conclusion of the conflict between the United States and First Philippine Republic, and saw the US move to impose its authority over the Muslim states in Mindanao, Jolo and the neighboring Sulu Archipelago.
Trump's tweet about General Pershing appears to advocate unforgiving treatment of terrorists to deter future attacks. Trump repeats debunked terrorist torture anecdote about Gen. Pershing in ...
Lane, Jack C. (1978). Armed Progressive: General Leonard Wood. Presidio Press. ISBN 978-0-89141-009-6. Smythe, Donald (1973). Guerrilla Warrior: The Early Life of John J. Pershing. Scribner. ISBN 9780684129334. US Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1860–1941. United States Government Printing, 1997. Wagner, Kim A (2024).
The Pancho Villa Expedition from 1916 to 1917, led by General John J. Pershing, was an operation in retaliation against Pancho Villa's incursion into the United States. [5] Suppression of the 1920 Iraqi Revolt against the British Mandate of Mesopotamia. [6]
The Moro conflict [38] [39] [40] was an insurgency in the Mindanao region of the Philippines which involved multiple armed groups. [41] [30] A decades-long peace process [38] [42] has resulted in peace deals between the Philippine government and two major armed groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) [43] and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), [44] but other smaller armed ...
The Battle of Columbus resulted in the creation of the Punitive Expedition led by General John J. Pershing to track down and capture or kill Villa or disperse the attackers. In the operation, the Army used Curtiss Jenny airplanes for reconnaissance and trucks to carry supplies (both firsts for the Army).