'Final (Paper) Blow'
It all looks good in dreams before the dawn:
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has declared an all-out war on the communist insurgency and set a 2010 deadline for the AFP to defeat the NPA, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
Through «Oplan Bantay Laya,» the military's counterinsurgency blueprint, the AFP chief of staff, Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr., said there would be only 25 guerrilla fronts left by 2010, making the NPA an «inconsequential group.»
Esperon had said that from the existing 87 guerrilla fronts, the military aims to dismantle 17 in the first quarter of 2008.
The military is also tossing some bones to a very sophisticated menu of psy-ops, public diplomacy, and legal weapons. I especially liked this statement: «Our operations are only against the enemies of the state and not civilians. They don't have to leave their homes because they are not being targeted,» he said.
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