The Philippine Experience in Counterinsurgency

With:
Renato Cruz De Castro
U.S. State Department ASEAN Research Fellow
Professor, De La Salle University, Manila, the Philippines

Moderator:
Derek Mitchell,
Senior Fellow and Director for Asia
International Security Program, CSIS

Over the last four decades, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has fought a series of extended, low-intensity, counterinsurgency conflicts. What factors account for the AFP’s continuing involvement in these types of conflicts? And what are the prospects for the AFP to terminate its neverending engagement in them? Renato Cruz De Castro, one the Philippines’ leading scholars and analysts, will discuss the Philippine experience fighting insurgencies and the way forward.

Renato Cruz De Castro is currently the U.S. State Department ASEAN research fellow from the Philippines and is an adjunct faculty member of the political science department at Arizona State University. He is on the faculty (on sabbatical leave) of the international studies department at De La Salle University, Manila, the Philippines. Dr. De Castro earned his PhD from the University of South Carolina as a Fulbright scholar in 2001.