ADAS: AFP confronts internal threats
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has viable strategies in place to combat the internal and external dangers the country is currently facing, according to the AFP chief.
General Emmanuel Bautista spoke positively of the fight against the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing the New People’s Army (CPP/NPA), the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in an interview with Shephard Media.
‘In our campaign plan Bayanihan, these are the three threat groups that we wanted to address. We have strategies for each of them. We have end states and desired
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