...American Revolution and 1831 ! ! All starting on March 5, 1770 with the Boston Massacre when a troop of British soldiers opened fired on a group of protesters. Then later in 1773 the Coercive Acts were put into place allowing British troops to stay in and occupy houses American were already living in. These Acts also came with the closing of the Port of Boston and allowing British soldiers to be tried for crimes back home in Britain. This was an outrage to the Americans, the colonies had to come together to deiced what they were going to do get rid of the British. They eventually knew that they needed to take the British to war so they could finally separate from them. ! On April 19, 1775 the war began in Concord and Lexington where the British tried to sneak up on the Americans and disarm them and capture leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock in the morning hours of the day. From a series of horseback riders like Paul Revere, the word was able to be spread that the British were on there way. After a series of defeats like Bunker Hill, Long Island, and New York. The American battled back in Valley Forge, Saratoga, and Yorktown where they cornered Cornwallis and his troops and made his surrender. In 1783 the Treaty of Paris was signed to give America its Freedom from Britain. ! Following the American Revolution the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation in 1777. It had no authority in interstate disputes and only could request taxes and troops from...
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...Through the years, the AFP Intelligence Community (AFPIC) has strived to become a highly capable, dynamic and unified military institution committed to excellence in providing timely, accurate and relevant intelligence at all levels of Command for the accomplishment of the AFP Mission. In pursuit of this goal, the AFPIC recognizes the need to gain the trust and support of our people, for Intelligence is in itself ‘about people and the study of people’. It is imperative for them to know that military intelligence personnel, in the performance of their inherent tasks, are governed by rules and procedures that would ensure the protection of human rights and civil liberties. The Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence J2 is publishing this “Human Rights-Based Intelligence Operations Guidebook (Rules of Behavior for Military Intelligence Personnel)” with this objective in mind, to broaden the public’s understanding of our mission and challenges, and to help us become better and stronger partners committed to serve and defend our country. Designed to further harmonize all intelligence operations with the principles of human rights and International Humanitarian Law (IHL), this Guidebook is one of the contributions of the AFPIC to the Internal Peace and Security Plan (IPSP) “Bayanihan” of the AFP and to the Security Sector Reform Agenda of the Commanderin-Chief, President Benigno S Aquino III. The essential characteristics of this Guidebook...
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