WENDELL FERTIG AND HIS GUERRILLA FORCES IN THE PHILIPPINES

摘要

Kent Holmes, retired Central Intelligence Agency officer and senior intelligence ser .vice member, gives an extensively researched account of an American commanders activities and problems of command in Wendell Fertig and His Guerrilla Forces in the Philippines: Fighting the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945. Holmes provides a sequential analysis of Fertigs background, the operational environment, guerilla development, the enemy situation, the guerilla situation, logistics, intelligence, and Fertig s leadership and responsibilities. He does so to evaluate Fertigs leadership, ultimately asserting that Fertigs guerillas were the largest and best-organized guerilla group, provided the best intelligence coverage, and were one of two groups whose major operational capabilities contributed to the liberation of the Philippines. Holmes points out that Fertig was later one of the architects of U.S. Army Special Forces. In addition to the special operations community, this book should appeal to intelligence professionals, Pacific theater aficionados, and anyone who seeks a better understanding of leadership in the complex environments of irregular, hybrid, or guerrilla warfare.