Asian Defense News: Philippines to adopt US strategy in counter-insurgency starting....NSI News Source Info # 1359

Asian Defense News: Philippines to adopt US strategy in counter-insurgency starting....NSI News Source Info # 1359

ANN - Tuesday, December 21 Manila - A Filipino lawmaker on Monday bared that the Armed Forces of the Philippines' (AFP) new counter-insurgency strategy had the mark of the United States' own counter-insurgency operation plan, but said it is bound to fail if the government will not address the root causes of the armed conflict.

Left-leaning Anakpawis party-list Representative Rafael Mariano said Oplan Bayanihan was patterned after the US Counter-Insurgency (COIN) Guide in January 2009, which shifts the strategy of combating insurgency toward a "whole of nation and people-centered" approach.

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