Lukban

Lukban, the book
This book is about one of Aguinaldo’s intrepid generals, Vicente Rilles Lukban, and how he waged guerrilla war in the island of Samar, the country’s third largest island. Neither Aguinaldo nor any of his generals had any theoretical knowledge about waging that kind of war. Their experience in the anti-colonial struggle against Spain was largely the conventional sort of warfare where troops positioned themselves at designated sites and fired at each other until one or the other surrendered or retreated, although in the early days of the revolution the Katipunan forces used long bladed weapons to seize rifles in pitch battles that had no defined rules. In the subsequent struggle against US occupying forces, they had to devise their own tactics in the environment that they operated in, guided by common sense and imagination.