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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Dec 18, 2022 18:05:32 GMT
Most importantly though, you'd have a radically different trajectory for Philippine sports overall. As I've said in the original version of TL, Philippine basketball would be gutted beyond repair. One other possible benefit of Philippine football ITTL is their exposure to Latin American clubs would also garner support for closer ties to the wider Hispanic world. That also means Manny Pacquiao will take a different route for TTL. In the original version of the TL, Manny Pacquiao was an eskrima specialist. I think it would be the same in this rewrite. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Dec 18, 2022 18:37:31 GMT
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE FILIPINO CIVIL WAR CONCLUSION
Portions from the Interview with Former President of the Philippine Government-in-Exile Aquilino Pimentel
Deutsche Welle, released on March 15, 2018
Discussing the Final Stage of the Filipino Civil War
Interviewer: The world has finally sighed in relief that the civil war in the Philippines has been concluded with the defeat of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, and the triumph of the late President Corazon Aquino. Yet, even the most diehard loyalists of the late President had concluded that Artemio Tadiar was the real winner of the Filipino Civil War. Can you please elaborate on that?
Pimentel: Well, Cory Aquino was reduced to a lame duck after Marcos's offensive into Laguna and Cavite, following the fall of Manila. Immediately, after he retook Malacanang Palace from the Aquino faction that was left to defend the building, he immediately nullified the 1986 election results, which won no one over. However, it was the offensive into Cavite that finally forced the Aquino government to accept America's suggestion of an informal partnership with the Tadiar-aligned renegade forces. It didn't help that the Battle of Trece Martires that occurred on the anniversary of Ninoy Aquino's assassination turned into a brutal battle that resulted in the entire garrison of Trece Martires being massacred by pro-Marcos soldiers. In addition, the nearby province of Batangas had turned into a place of extreme carnage, as the communists have finally managed to capture a town in Batangas called San Juan. The massacres committed by both pro-Marcos and communist forces against civilians in the region would later be exploited by the Tadiar dictatorship, and it is in Batangas that you would have the early fanatical followers of Tadiar that emerged.
Interviewer: Was it disheartening to see much of the Aquino government forces being reduced to following orders from the man who would supplant Ferdinand Marcos as the most infamous dictator in the Philippines?
Pimentel: Of course, it is! We had no choice, but to work with Tadiar, but in the end, he stabbed all of us in the back. Gregorio Honasan never trusted Tadiar after the civil war had ended, and even when he was about to be executed, Honasan never flinched, even after he was shot by the firing squad. Tadiar proceeded to commit so many human rights violations, that even Marcos loyalists who might have been lukewarm to Tadiar taking power, had now become one of the biggest opponents of the Tadiar regime.
Interviewer: OK. (pauses) You've also added that much of the Muslim separatist movement in Mindanao had been lukewarm to Tadiar's proposed plan for the federalization of the Philippines, and in fact it was Nur Misuari who pushed for such a plan. Originally, you were a proponent of the federalization scheme and you even coined it as charter change. How did you react to the Tadiar dictatorship's implementation of what is originally your project?
Pimentel: When Tadiar had implemented the federalization project for all of the Philippines, it was designed mostly on both the German and Japanese model, with a good number of provinces being merged and turned into Prefectures. That was the Japanese influence on the administrative divisions, as it gave Prefectural Governors more power to deal with issues facing their prefectures. The limited decentralization of the Philippines also gave more autonomy to the Prefectural Governors, but at the same time, you also had the tricameral legislative assembly being a nightmare to deal with.
Interviewer: How so?
Pimentel: The amount of bureaucracy in the prefectural, regional, and national assemblies was enormous! It's like nothing is getting done, and the international community was shocked that they could not even get a simple trade agreement made with the Tadiar regime, because it had to go through those levels of assemblies.
Interviewer: Going back to the civil war at hand, much of the world also celebrated when General Fabian Ver was killed in an airstrike at Laoag, in what is now Ilocos Prefecture. The fact that it was a fighter aircraft piloted by one of Danilo Atienza's wingmen that carried out that deed was not lost on the former Marcos regime loyalist diehards that they viewed Atienza as enemy number one. Several decades later, you have the descendants of these very same regime diehards commemorate the death of General Ver, which took place every November 21, and they would often clash with protesters who were diehards of the late Artemio Tadiar. What do you think defines the legacy of Fabian Ver?
Pimentel: I can safely say that the Marcos diehards viewed Fabian Ver as someone who would have made the Philippines a bit more authoritarian, but nowhere near as totalitarian as Artemio Tadiar's dictatorship had been. I remember this VossCode post that someone wrote. I can read it, if you want.
Interviewer: Go ahead, please.
Pimentel: It says, 'Fabian Ver may have been a brutal general, but at the very least he'd guide the Philippines the same way Park Chung-hee had guided South Korea. General Ver would have eventually prepared the Philippines for a genuine transition to democracy, but he could also have dismantled the oligarchy within the Philippines in a peaceful manner, instead of the brutal, hamfisted way that Tadiar did. Of course, Fabian Ver would not have gotten the Philippines involved in a shooting war with China that led to the bombing campaign that nearly destroyed our country, and paved the way for the most unpopular decision of the Tadiar regime in Philippine history. General Ver would never spit on the graves of many Filipinos who fought against the Japanese occupation by rehabilitating the Filipino collaborators who worked for Japan, the way General Tadiar did. Most importantly, we would never have destroyed our relations with the Chinese communist government, and we certainly would not have expelled our own Tsinoy population to Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Tadiar proved to be no better than Suharto when he dealt with the Tsinoys, and their replacement with Japanese immigrants and the flooding of the Philippines with Japanese goods, despite the diplomatic isolation, would never happen under General Ver.'
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PHILIPPINE MILITARY DIVIDED OVER POE ADMINISTRATION TO SWITCH BACK TO AMERICAN STYLE FOOT DRILL AND PARADE FROM TADIAR-ERA GOOSE STEP DRILL AND PARADE
Sydney Herald
November 24, 2014
(Kabankalan, KABANKALAN SPECIAL WARD) - The Armed Forces of the Philippines was in for a shock when President Grace Poe had announced that in consultation with Defense Secretary Roberto Empedrad, the Philippine military will switch back to American style foot drill and parade traditions, as a means of breaking with the legacy of the late Tadiar dictatorship. The American foot drill and parade tradition had been the standard drill of the Philippine military, prior to the nation's takeover by former Major General Artemio Tadiar. During the Tadiar dictatorship, the Philippine military had undergone a drastic military reform with the help of Chilean generals tied to the former Pinochet and Corbalan dictatorships, including the introduction of Prussian style goose step drills and Prussian style marching bands. Most of the Filipino public had viewed the adoption of Chilean military traditions for their military as something 'un-Filipino', and the political exile community had maintained the same drill and marching band tradition of their military, before the Tadiar takeover. However, the Tadiar dictatorship had also adopted the unforms worn by Filipino troops during the Philippine-American War for their officer cadets attending the Philippine Military Academy, as well as adopting the same general staff organization and military doctrine from the Chileans as well.
"The break with the Tadiar legacy must be complete, from the military sphere, to the civilian sphere. We have suffered far too much from the legacies of the two dictatorships that have torn our country apart, and by moving away from certain practices that has associated itself with the recent military dictatorship, we are preparing to heal our national trauma," says Poe, during a speech while addressing PMA officer cadets. "The United States has reached out to us for assistance in making a clean break from these past traditions that continued to haunt the Philippines, even after the death of Artemio Tadiar."
Unfortunately, President Poe's decision to have the Philippine military revert back to its pre-Tadiar military traditions, especially in areas of drill and parade, had received a backlash from the Philippine military officer corps, many of whom had fought in the Second Korean War, and all of whom have grown up during the Tadiar dictatorship. Additionally, the Philippine National Youth Association, which succeeded the notorious Tadiar Youth, had also been raised in the tradition of goose step marches and Prussian style military bands, had found it difficult to readjust back to American style marches. Consequently, some Filipino military officers started to negotiate with President Poe on a compromise regarding the military marches: that they would adopt the high step march instead of fully returning to the American style foot drills, as a means of partially moving away from the goose step.
"While I agree with the President's need to break away from the traditions that were associated with the former Tadiar regime, many of my colleagues felt that a sharp break will be excessive. Furthermore, the marches that we learned when Major General Tadiar was still alive felt more sharp and crisp than the American style marches," says current Defense Secretary Giovanni Bacordo, during a press conference while hosting a delegation from the visiting Australian Navy warship, the HMAS Arunta. "However, we might also be looking at British style foot drills as a possible alternative to the American style foot drills though."
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"The collapse of the pro-Marcos forces in the Philippines had been evident when news of the former dictator's death on September 25, 1987 was announced by both local and international media outlets. At that time, it had been several weeks since the infamous Battle of Trece Martires on the anniversary of Benigno Aquino Jr.'s death that the morale among the pro-Marcos forces had taken a sharp dive towards the bottom, and news of Marcos's death had resulted in a few more desertions on behalf of the former regime forces to both the forces of the Aquino government and the Tadiar-aligned troops that fought for the eventual future military dictator. In addition, the airstrike carried out by a young, upcoming officer named Danilo Atienza had resulted in a successful death of Fabian Ver, leading to the last Acting President in Former First Lady Imelda Marcos calling on her husband's troops to surrender. The liberation of territories in Luzon by both Aquino government and Tadiar-aligned troops had been a welcoming sight for the civilians that suffered under a renewed but short lived Second Marcos Dictatorship, unaware that one of the people that they saw that marched alongside his troops would become the ultimate second dictator. Unfortunately, once after the Marcos regime loyalist forces had surrendered, the issue of the communist control of southeastern Luzon, eastern Visayas and northeastern Mindanao had become a source of hostile tensions between President Aquino and Brigadier General Tadiar. President Aquino insisted on including the communists in a future post-Marcos Philippine government as a precondition to the reconstruction of the country, but Tadiar refused to even negotiate with the communists, preferring to execute them outright. In addition, the victims of the NPA's rampages in territories that they controlled eventually became one of the most fanatical defenders of the Tadiar military dictatorship, often collaborating with Alsa Masa paramilitary forces that hunted down the communist militias once the war shifted towards the communists instead. When President Aquino reached out to her American counterpart in Ronald Reagan, she was stunned to hear President Reagan's criticism of her flirtations with the communists in the Philippines. What she would not know, was that the CIA and the American military leadership felt that Artemio Tadiar had a better chance of resisting the communists than Corazon Aquino. The revelation of Tadiargate, or more infamously known as the Iran-Contra-Tadiar Scandal, would play a role in the defeat of the Republican Party in the 1988 US Presidential Election, where Michael Dukakis and Jesse Jackson would win the Presidency and Vice Presidency respectively. George H.W. Bush was never trusted again, while Bob Dole might have narrowly avoided the political fallout, ultimately it was future President Jack Kemp who realized that the Republican Party had to rebuild itself into a party freed from political scandals, a task that even he eventually failed to complete, as the Kemp years would be notoriously known for its brutal invasions of Cuba and Nicaragua, its aggression against Ramon Rodriguez Chacin's regime in Venezuela, and the Second Korean War." Michael Isikoff, From 'Tadiarism and Beyond: The Military Dictatorship Soaked in Blood', released by the Breitbart Telegram, 2017.
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TADIAR-LED FORCES STAGE MULTIPLE ATTACKS ON COMMUNIST PSEUDO-REPUBLICS IN AN ACT OF NAKED AGGRESSION, PRESIDENT AQUINO TERMINATES INFORMAL ALLIANCE WITH CONTROVERSIAL OFFICER
Manila Times
October 31, 1987
(Tayabas, BREAKAWAY-STATE OF TAYABAS PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC) - The civil war in the Philippines resumed once more, this time pitting the Aquino government and her unlikely allies in the communist movement against the renegade military forces led by controversial military officer in Artemio Tadiar, with the Tadiar-aligned forces staging multiple attacks on the self-proclaimed Tayabas People's Republic, the Surigao People's Republic, and the youngest breakaway state in the relatively unheard of state of the Tacloban People's Republic. The Tacloban People's Republic was established back in June of 1987, when a new communist militia with ties to the New People's Army had surprised and inflicted a rare defeat upon Artemio Tadiar's Marines attempting to regain control of the island of Samar in the aftermath of the Tacloban Massacre that was caused by the food and fuel riots. However, the breakaway state in Samar was the smallest of them all, as the communists in Leyte were only able to expand, ironically, into Barangay Poblacion in Samar province, before Alsa Masa paramilitaries were able to launch raids on communist training camps in the island of Leyte. The sudden counteroffensive by the Tadiar-aligned forces was also bolstered by the arrival of additional military aid coming from the United States, as they have written off President Aquino as a lost cause, in the form of additional Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops, or PASGT, plus Assault Amphibious Vehicles for amphibious operations. In addition, other Philippine military forces also advanced into the breakaway Tayabas People's Republic from Batangas province, surprising the weakened communist forces there. According to official sources within the Aquino government, the amount of casualties suffered on all sides were enormous, with both the goverment forces and pro-Marcos regime loyalist forces sustaining the most number of casualties, in terms of soldiers that were killed or wounded.
"The lack of medical supplies on our side has contributed to the increasing amount of our soldiers that are dying or have survived, but some of their arms or legs had to be amputated because the infection was left unattended," says Colonel Honasan, when asked about the situation involving the hospitals that have overflown with numerous soldiers taken off from the battlefield. "The communists on the other hand, do not have enough medical supplies for their own wounded comrades. However, the horrific part is that it was mostly the Tadiar-aligned forces that are executing them, once they either surrender, or are too wounded to retreat."
The Reagan administration had come under intense scrutiny from within Congress and the House of Representatives when it was revealed that much of the military aid that was supposed to go to the Aquino government forces, had in fact ended up being taken by the Tadiar-aligned forces, though the Pentagon had insisted that President Aquino's growing unpopularity was the main reason why backing her would be tantamount to political suicide, even if she was elected democratically. Moreover, the food and fuel riots that broke out during the Filipino Civil War had brutally exposed the political inexperience of President Aquino for the world to see, with even Marcos regime supporters and Artemio Tadiar himself begrudgingl agreeing with each other, a rarity in post-EDSA Revolution politics. Meanwhile, additional offensives against the communists also continue, as President Reagan had authorized the US Air Force and the 7th Fleet based in Yokosuka Naval Base to deploy its aerial assets in order to carry out airstrikes against suspected communist strongholds in the Philippines. Yet, the brutality displayed by the Tadiar-aligned forces towards the communists had been the source of hostile tensions between the renegade general and President Aquino, resulting in her decision to cut her informal ties to Tadiar.
"Right now, the main focus should be on eliminating the communist bands that continued to terrorize the civilian population of certain areas of the Philippines that came under communist control," says President Reagan, during a session in Congress, while addressing its members. "As long as the communists continue their deadly rampage across the Philippines, the Filipino people will never have a peaceful and stable life. Not with Soviet and Chinese communism breathing down their necks. At the same time, I could not fault President Aquino for her decision to end her alliance with Artemio Tadiar, mainly due to his forces committing the worst war crimes and crimes against humanity in their treatment of their communist captives."
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"The 1st Scout Ranger Regiment had played a key role in the Filipino Civil War, with some of their troops playing a role in the defense of Cabanatuan City, before joining Artemio Tadiar's renegade forces in battling the communists in other parts of the Philippines. They were also notable for carrying out the most publicized mission in their regimental history, which was the raid on Laoag, where battle hardened troops of the 1st Scout Ranger Regiment had entered into a gun fight with the remaining troops loyal to former President Marcos, before capturing the former First Lady Imelda Marcos and her children. Imelda herself revealed to her captors that former President Marcos had died from complications related to his disease on October 18, 1987, just a few days before the Tadiar-aligned forces carried out their counteroffensives against the communists that continued to hold territory in other parts of the Philippines. Yet, during the Tadiar dictatorship, the 1st Scout Ranger was used to suppress other communist revolts, and was even sent to Mexico to help the Mexican Army deal with the Zapatistas, before their forced return to the Philippines in 1995, due to the Chinese bombing campaign against them. Between the Chinese bombing of the Philippines and the 2002-2004 Second Korean War, the 1st Scout Ranger Regiment had expanded so much, that General Tadiar would preside over the foundation of two more Scout Ranger regiments, namely the 2nd Scout Ranger Regiment, and the 3rd Scout Ranger Regiment. These SRRs were deployed to Korea during the Second Korean War, as they played a role in the defense of Wonju against the North Korean Army. Yet, while the Scout Ranger Regiments were battle hardened by Philippine standards, they were not seen as a credible threat in the eyes of the major powers that had professional armies that were even more battle hardened than the Scout Ranger Regiments. China's special forces units would have easily defeated the battle hardened Scout Ranger Regiments in any open battle, and the Joint Special Operations Forces of the Eurasian Union State (namely the combined special forces of the three member states of the Eurasian Union State, like Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan) would have also defeated them in any type of combat as well. In fact, there were fears that a possible Chinese invasion of the Philippines would have involved the heavy usage of the PLA Special Forces units in the initial phase of the invasion, followed by the landing of PLA ground units and PLA Navy's naval infantry units. Additionally, China did not rule out the possibility of the Eurasian Union State's combined three armies' involvement in the planned invasion of the Philippines, especially the potential deployment of the Russia's 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade and the dreaded 106th Guards Airborne Regiment from the VDV, or Russia's equivalent of America's 82nd Airborne Regiment." From TuranWatch, titled 'The Philippines's 1st Scout Ranger'.
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Post by gillan1220 on Dec 22, 2022 6:25:54 GMT
BTW, would Tadiar try to produce WMDs in this rewrite? I think Tadiar would still produce the dirty bomb that could strike Hainan Island and southern China. , I would think that a new kind of design for the Presidential Guard in the Philippines ITTL would be up in the air. Maybe a replica of the uniforms that they wore during the Philippine Revolution would be a good design. You know, I would think that a new kind of design for the Presidential Guard in the Philippines ITTL would be up in the air. Maybe a replica of the uniforms that they wore during the Philippine Revolution would be a good design. For now, the AFP of Tadiar would use olive drab BDUs, M81 Woodland, and the older Philippine Marine uniform used during EDSA. We might also see the return of Puzzle Pattern for officers just as Fidel Ramos wore one during the 1970s. camopedia.org/index.php/Philippines |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Dec 22, 2022 6:36:32 GMT
I think the puzzle pattern would still be used by Tadiar's troops, up to this day ITTL. I would see the replica of the uniforms worn during the Philippine Revolution as a uniform used for ceremonial duties, as well as used by PMA cadets.
I might have to write a non-canon segment on what a possible Chinese ground invasion of the Philippines would look like, though whether it would be by itself, or if the Tadiar regime's plans for an expansive nuclear program becomes exposed, a joint operation with Russia, only because I would want to see how the likes of the 1st Scout Ranger Regiment would fare against the most elite of the PLA and the Russian Army's Naval Infantry and Airborne troops.
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