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Alfred W. McCoy. Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1999. Pp. xx, 425. $40.00.

Alfred W. McCoy has presented scholars of recent Philippine history and those who study military elites on a comparative basis with a well-researched, dynamic, and engrossing monograph that is difficult to put down. However, as someone interested in the Philippines, I believe there are certain areas that could stand further examination. While some of these are touched upon by McCoy, more elucidation would have enhanced our understanding of the Philippine Military Academy classes of 1940 and 1971. 1

McCoy's family background is U.S. military and West Point. It was perhaps somewhat natural for him to be curious as to why many postwar Philippine Military Academy (PMA) graduates, especially from the class of 1971, were willing tools of the Marcos-era repression while the class of 1940 abstained—for the most part—from partisan politics and threats of coup d'état during the chaotic days of the 1950s. . . .

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