A Career Worth Reviewing
The Life of Lieutenant General George Van Horn Moseley, Part 1

Captain George Van Horn Moseley

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Anglo–American whites were dispossessed in their own country in the two decades between 1913 and 1933.[1] The dispossession happened by degrees, and the it mostly went unnoticed. It wasn’t until the lead-up to the Second World War that a few far-sighted old-stock Americans recognized the problem, as well as the fact that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was maneuvering the country into an unnecessary war in Europe. Roosevelt’s pursuit of conflict was made on behalf of ethnonationalist Jews and foreign powers.

Throughout his presidency, Roosevelt was criticized by a small group of Roosevelt “haters” who were tolerated with amusement by the overwhelmingly pro-Roosevelt American public. For the most part, these critics had very little ability to shape the mainstream narrative and even fewer were in prominent positions. There was one such individual, however: Lieutenant General George Van Horn Moseley (1874-1960). Moseley undertook his political activism on behalf of his own people upon his retirement from the United States Army.

According to the mainstream narrative, Moseley was a “venomous” pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic “conspiracy theorist.” It is true that Moseley did not submit to the influence of the organized Jewish community, but he was not engaged in idle “conspiracy” talk, either. Moseley was a deadly serious and highly accomplished man who dealt directly with threats to his people throughout his life. As such, his career is worth reviewing.

A Youth at War

George Moseley was born in 1874, squarely in the middle of the birth years of the generation called by some the “Missionary Generation.” Its members would go on to become idealistic founders of institutions, many of which still exist today. If America has had a “greatest generation,” then Moseley and his peers were such a cohort.

Moseley was born in Evansville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father, George Dallas Moseley, was of old–stock American heritage. His mother, Alice Kent Willett, was English. At least two of Moseley’s ancestors had served in the American Revolutionary War: Private Johnathan Buckland and Colonel Nathaniel Moseley, both from Connecticut.

Moseley graduated from West Point in 1899, just after the Spanish-American War. He was assigned to the 9th US Cavalry which was then posted in the Southwest. However, the lightning victories over Spain were the opening act for two other conflicts: the Philippine Insurrection and the Boxer Rebellion. Moseley was quickly shipped off to the Philippines.

The Benevolence of the Old Timers

To explain it simply, the Philippine Insurrection started when President William McKinley decided to rule the Philippines as a colony, mainly to keep out other imperial powers. The Filipino insurgents had hoped that the islands would win complete independence. Hostilities with the Filipinos began in Manila on the night of February 4, 1899.

For the most part, the American senior officers serving in the Philippine Insurrection were Old-Stock Americans whose roots stretched back to colonial New England and who had served in the Union Army during the Civil War. These men had stayed in the military following the War between the States and had earned campaign ribbons from the Indian Wars.

Their career was not one of continued deployments, however. The years between the Civil War and Spanish-American War were not crisis-filled. Free of constant campaigning, the career officers acquired law degrees, raised families, and engaged in legitimate side-businesses.

The senior officers in the Philippines were therefore more well-rounded and older than the norm for senior officers in most of America’s wars. The most important early military governor of the Philippines was Elwell S. Otis, who was just past sixty in 1899. Throughout the conflict, senior officers like Otis were rarely popular with the common soldiers or the press. The Civil War veterans also hogged the top appointments in the US Army in the Philippines. Throughout the campaign in the Philippines, the military also kept its seniority system for promotions in place. However, this older crew turned around a vicious insurgency and within a few years, the bitterness of war was soon forgotten by both sides. Former Filipino Insurgents became senior officials in the colonial government.

The Americans won the Philippine insurrection through a policy of “benevolence.” This policy started in America-occupied Manila before peace was concluded with Spain. The Americans paved the city’s roads, built schools and hospitals, and set up municipal utilities in the city even before President McKinley had decided upon a policy for the islands.

Soldiers from the US Army guard Filipino prisoners in 1899. Notice how mellow both sets of men appear given the circumstances. The overarching strategy in the Philippines was “benevolence.” As such, the organized violence rarely got out of hand especially when the Americans faced off in battle with the Hispanicized Tagalog in Luzon.

The American military government continuously issued pardons and proclaimed amnesties for the insurgents throughout the conflict. The military also organized gun buyback programs, set up schools and health clinics, and provided food to famine-struck districts. The military operated under a legal framework from the US Civil War called General Orders Number 100.

The Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, & Race

From an ethnic and racial view of the leadership on both sides, the Philippine Insurrection was a fight between Old-Stock American Yankees with roots in colonial New England and Hispanicized Tagalog Filipinos from prominent families in Luzon. Tagalogs and Yankees had no real hatred towards each other – these two peoples were only brought into conflict through the gravitational shift of one empire collapsing and another rising.

Areas where the Tagalog (Filipino) language is spoken. The initial fighting was between the Americans, led by Old-Stock Yankees with ancestors in colonial New England and Hispanicized Tagalog people on Luzon. Source: Wikipedia Commons

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Both groups wanted what was best for the Philippines, their differences were over how the islands would interface through the world, through the American Empire or independent, but with the powerful Japanese nearby. This meant that “benevolence” on the part of the Americans and “collaboration” on the part of the Filipinos was a viable path towards a truly independent Philippines. Meanwhile, other ethnic groups in the Islands feared the Tagalogs more than the Yankees. The population of the Island of Negros, for example, sided with the Americans from the get-go.

The most serious ethnic clash on the island was that between the Overseas Chinese and the Hispanicized Tagalog mercantile and political elite. The American government banned the entry of Chinese into the Philippines shortly after arrival. This act, along with the improvements and reforms in Manila in 1898 probably won the war for the Americans before the fighting got started.

One of the best generals during the war was James Franklin Bell, who was the rare American general in the Philippines who was not a Civil War veteran. Bell created a counter insurgency policy which was harsh, but victorious. The “harshness,” such as it was, was only directed towards the insurgents who were using terror tactics against local Filipinos collaborating with the Americans in the towns. The insurgent terrorism lost Filipino hearts and minds. Bell certainly won Filipino hearts and minds with his order of 23 December 1901 which prohibited price gouging by the Chinese.

The order stated:

Chinamen especially will be warned against buying up food products for the purpose of securing a monopoly and establishing a high price and if they undertake to violate regulations in this regard, commanding officers will require them to sell out at public auction, close up their establishments, and deport them from the Brigade [Area of Operations] to Manila.[2]

While the senior leadership of the US Army during the Spanish-American War and its related conflicts in the Philippines and China were mostly Yankees who had served in the Union Army, the main body of soldiers were American Nordics of all kinds, many of whom were from upper-middle class or elite families – such as Sergeant Hamilton Fish, who was killed in action in Cuba. James Edward Calhoun, descendant of the famous Senator, served as a Captain in the US Army’s 2nd Corps during the conflict. Madison Grant wrote:

No one who saw one of our regiments march on its way to the Spanish War could fail to be impressed with the size and blondness of the men in the ranks as contrasted with the complacent citizen, who from his safe stand on the gutter curb gave his applause to the fighting man and then stayed behind to perpetuate his own brunet type.[3]

Members of the 44th US Volunteer Infantry during the Philippine Insurrection.

The men who made up the US Army during the Spanish-American War and related operations in the Philippines were not all Nordics of course, but most were. The Regular Army also had two sub-Saharan infantry regiments, the 24th and 25th. Both regiments went on a rampage in Tampa, Florida before the invasion of Cuba in 1898. In 1906, the 25th US Infantry, then posted to Brownsville, Texas, also carried out organized cruelty against civilians – firing into houses in the middle of the night and killing one man and wounding the sheriff. During the Philippine Insurrection, a small but politically significant number of sub-Saharans deserted the US Army and joined the insurgents, which caused considerable problems for the Americans throughout the war.

During his first deployment to the Philippines, Second Lieutenant Moseley served in the cavalry, and he carried out the counter-insurgency policy excellently. On March 25, 1901, he convinced a senior officer in the insurrectionist army to surrender.

After his first deployment to the Philippines, Moseley married Alice Dodds, an Old-Stock American and daughter of an army officer in 1903. They had two sons and then divorced in 1924.

During his second assignment to the Philippines, Moseley had a more difficult experience. While the insurgency with the Hispanicized Tagalog elite was finished, problems in the other parts of the archipelago popped up. The first was on the Island of Samar.

From 1905 until 1907, Samar Island in the Philippines was the scene of a fierce insurgency involving a “Ghost Dancers” called the Pulahan.

The problems on Samar started before the Spanish-American War itself. A large part of the island’s population were producers of hemp and economically exploited by the merchants in town who used the product to make rope which was sold globally. The Americans became involved in the trouble when Company C, 9th US Infantry was sent to the island to help secure the hemp supply. On September 28, 1901, 54 members of the company were massacred in the town of Balangiga by insurgents. The insurgents had planned the operation before any Americans arrived and the treachery and savagery of the attack even as the wider insurgency was winding down threatened to upend everything.

American forces occupied the islands and ended the unrest, but only temporarily. The end of any insurgency leaves ragged political edges and Samar’s internal political issues were not resolved. Tensions between the various factions on the island led to a Ghost Dancer movement and those involved were named the Pulahan.

The Pulahan turned out to be fanatic zealots and they bitterly resisted all government control. The colonial Philippine government first attempted to deal with the Pulahan by using the lightly armed and less trained Philippine Constabulary, but the Constabulary was unable to contain the violence. The government then sent the better equipped and experienced Philippine Scouts augmented by US Army forces.

Captain George Moseley served in Samar as an aide-de-camp to General Jessie Matlock Lee — who was a veteran of both the Civil War and the Indian Wars. When the Pulahan rebellion spread from Samar to nearby Leyte Island, Moseley was put in command of a successful expedition to quell the disorder.

Captain Moseley commanded troops during the Pulajane Expedition on Leyte.

Historian Brian McAllister Linn wrote:

With the exception of the misnamed ‘Moro Wars’, the Pulahan conflict was the longest, costliest post-conquest campaign of the colonial army. Between 1904 and 1907 on Samar alone it required the 1st, 14th, and 21st Infantry, detached companies from the 6th, 12th, and 24th Infantry, and between six and 18 companies of the Philippine Scouts. Another four Regular companies were stationed on Leyte in 1906 and 1907. Personnel losses were higher than some provincial campaigns during the conquest: according to one compilation, between 4 September 1904 and 25 October 1906, soldiers and Scouts suffered 73 combat casualties on Samar and another four on Leyte. Unfortunately, neither the military nor the civil government attempted to compile equivalent statistics on casualties among the Constabulary, the Pulahan, or the Samareno population; such figures as do emerge are highly suspect.[4]

Once the Pulahan rebellion was defeated, the problems in the Philippines shifted to imperial geopolitics involving the different interests of the American, Japanese, and British Empires. Underneath those tensions simmered a Christian-Moslem “Clash of Civilizations” on the Island of Mindanao. This clash was called the Moro Wars and Islam-fueled problems continue there to the present day.

After serving in Samar and Leyte, Moseley was sent to Fort Wingate, New Mexico Territory where he commanded I Troop, 5th US Cavalry. Fort Wingate was located near the ethnostate of the Navajo nation and occasionally the Cavalry was required to search for armed men who’d made trouble in the region. Fort Wingate was a Wild West frontier post and located in roughly the same region as Monument Valley, were so many Westerns were filmed. In 1911, Moseley was placed at the head of the entire US Cavalry and then served on the Mexican Border during the crisis of 1916-17.

Armageddon

No conflict save the Peloponnesian War, was as disastrous for Western Civilization as the First World War. The two primary antagonists – Britain and Germany – were related peoples who had cooperated in every way up until the start of hostilities in the late summer of 1914. The foundational cause of the war was that the Ottoman Empire was collapsing, and that institution’s free fall destabilized the rest of Europe to the point that a run-of-the-mill anarchist assassination of a prominent figure caused an Armageddon.

America stayed neutral until a mixture of German mis-steps, British influence, and Jewish pressure, pushed America into the war with a ridiculous, messianic fury. As a Regular Officer, Moseley was immediately deployed and assigned initially to the 5th US Field Artillery of the First Infantry Division. However, officers with his experience were in high demand, so he was given a brevet rank as a brigadier general and was posted to the staff of the Commanding General John J. Pershing working the logistics to support the soldiers on the front lines.

US Army supply trucks during the First World War.

The First World War exacerbated ethnic and racial tensions globally and the United States was not immune. The war exposed the alienation between Old-Stock Americans and assimilated white ethnicities from the white immigrants from non-traditional sources which had recently arrived.

The alienation between Anglo-Americans and related people and the more recent arrivals was widely remarked upon at the time. Even military service in the United States during the time had an obvious ethnic component despite the presence of a draft which was supposed to net everyone. In his preface to The Passing of the Great Race, the prominent scientist Henry Fairfield Osborn wrote:

. . . in the wonderful array of young men at Plattsburg, the Anglo-Saxon type was clearly dominant over every other and the purest members of this type largely outnumbered the others. In northern California I saw a great regiment detrain and with one or two exceptions they were all native Americans, descendants of the English, Scotch, and north of Ireland men who founded the State of Oregon in the first half of the nineteenth century. At Plattsburg, fair hair and blue eyes were very noticeable, much more than any ordinary crowds of American collegians as seen assembled in our universities.[5]

This propaganda poster was part of an attempt by the Wilson administration to clamp down on ethnic tensions that had been exacerbated by the First World War. It did not work.

In 1919, Communist-inspired rioting swept across the United States and many of the communists were foreign born or children of immigrants. Whittaker Chambers, for example, was drawn to communism through ordinary interactions with foreign workmen on various jobs after he ran away from home just after the end of the war. The core population of these rioters and communists were ethnonationalist Jews.

The communist inspired rioting in 1919 also had a sub-Saharan racial component. Sub-Saharan crime had grown to be a major problem in the cities of the northern United States during World War I. The crime spree caused a series of reactive riots on the part of whites, the most notable one in East Saint Louis, Illinois in the summer of 1917. Shortly after the riot in Illinois, in Houston, Texas, a portion of the 24th US Infantry went on a murder spree, killing many whites.

At the end of the First World War Moseley was sent to Armenia to report on conditions there as the Ottoman Empire collapsed. His report, called Mandatory Over Amenia, Document Number 281 is a well written and accurate snapshot of conditions in Anatolia and the Caucasus region in 1919. He showed that the activities of the local governments were akin to a Punch & Judy Show, and pointed out that transportation and communications issues were not overwhelming. He also believed that stabilizing the region would prevent further wars since most of Europe’s conflicts originate from problems brewing in the Near East.

Moseley’s experiences during the Philippine Insurrection are evident in his report. He writes:

What success we have had in the past in reconstruction work in our colonial possessions has been due, probably more than anything else, to the simple and direct form of military government which we installed. It is very important in this case that we take full advantage of our past experiences and be guided accordingly. Such a government is particularly suited to the conditions we find [in Armenia] and the people who are to be governed.[6]

Later in the report, he recommended that the American government “honestly face the conditions as they exist . . .” This summation, worldview, and philosophy guided Moseley as he moved into the most serious part of his career.

After returning from Europe, Moseley commanded a field artillery brigade in Texas, worked for a time in Washington D.C., commanded the garrison at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, moved to Hawaii and served in the artillery there and then he commanded the 1st Cavalry Division from 1927 to 1929. At this time Mexico was in the throes of civil unrest and anarchy and he was able to keep the problems from spilling into the United States. In 1929, he married Florence Barber Du Bois and they had one son. The pair separated shortly after the birth of their son.

Notes

[1] America at present fights wars on behalf of global Jewry, what remains of the deindustrialized economy limps along centered on the dubious engine of predatory moneylending on an global scale, and the mainstream media is entirely run by ethnonationalist Jews. The US Constitution has also been swapped for an anti-white illicit second constitution, and immigration is at population replacement levels.

[2] Robert D. Ramsey III, A Masterpiece of Counterguerrilla Warfare: BG Franklin Bell in the Philippines, 1901-1902, (Fort Leavenworth, Kans: Combat Studies Institute Press, US Army Combined Arms Center, 2007), p. 62.

[3] Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race, or The Racial Basis of European History (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1918), p. 74.

[4] Brian McAllister Linn, “The Pulahan Campaign: A Study in US Pacification,” War in History 6, no. 1 (1999): 45–71.

[5] Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race, pp. xi-xii.

[6] George Van Horn Moseley, Mandatory over Armenia, Document No. 281 (1919), p. 24.