Living for three years in Mindanao, the large island composing one-third of the Republic of the Philippines, the author was aware of the seal team six book and action surrounding their global missions.
It’s more than war. Remarkable potential for economic development exists in the Philippines. Why had not the tremendous resources of climate and geography been developed since the end of World War II? The population tripled. Rebels of Mindanao tells the problem: low income yields low savings, which limits investment, implying low productivity, and thus income remaining low. The cycle perpetuates.
Other books about special forces chronicle what is happening in Mindanao. Check also Mark Bowden and Oliver North stories told for TV and in their novels.
Through networking connection with fellow graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, the author of Rebels of Mindanao got to know the former President of the Republic of the Philippines, General Fidel V. Ramos, who, when the author asked about the “vicious circle” of poverty – investment he had observed, the President asked, “Have you heard of microfinance?”
The author, Tom Anthony, returned to Mindanao and observed and wrote stories to friends who became interested in this exotic place and inspired the “fictional” novel. The names were changed, the action was invented, and the truth was told. True images were woven around a fictional plot to make the story vivid and current. Beaufort Books, New York, published Rebels of Mindanao in hard cover and the book won awards in the New York Book Festival.
Upon Anthony’s return to the U.S., he resumed facilitating business classes at the University of Phoenix and used his special “boots on the ground” knowledge, to construct an entry strategy for Centric Ltd of Seattle to enter into business in the Philippines.
Centric is a stock company and wants to make a profit by doing the right things. Centric’s long term goal is to construct a factory in the Philippines manufacturing a product to replace plywood with their new, green technology fiberboard that does not require trees to be cut or forests depleted. The basic material can be grown in and around plantings of cacao and provides farmers income while reducing housing costs.
Rebels become farmers; the cycle is replaced with a new vision.
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