Abstract
WHY DID THE UNITED STATES win the Philippine-American War? Two decades ago, few would have thought that such a question merited serious consideration. The United States in 1900 was, after all, a powerful nation; the Philippines was not. If the United States was capable of defeating Spain so decisively, how could the ragtag forces of Emilio Aguinaldo have successfully resisted American occupation? Today, however, that initial question seems to require an answer. The Vietnam War has reminded us that the possession of superior military and economic power does not guarantee victory. If the forces of the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) were able to humble the United States, why did the Filipinos fail to do so? In this attempt to provide an answer, comparisons are drawn between the Philippine-American War and the recent one in Vietnam. I am not suggesting, however, that the two conflicts were fundamentally similar phenomena. At the time of the Vietnam War, a number of scholars and even a few government officials commented that the two were remarkably alike: both were in a
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