Let’s confuse the enemy, but never our own troops

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to end the protracted peace talks in Oslo, Norway, and resume armed hostilities between the government and the Communist Party of the Philippines/ New People’s Army/National Democratic Front (CPP/NPA/ NDF) seems to proclaim a strong belief that the peace process has failed, and that the military should now be

called upon to end the world’s longest running communist insur the assumption that the call is not

Very few theoreticians, if any, support this thesis; actual experience has shown that even had to end in a negotiated peace - cure the best military advantage on the ground to improve their positions at the negotiating table, but never to write off a peace But now he’s fed up with Joma

No doubt the Armed Forces of the Philippines stand ready to go have been detained for their role in the anti-communist campaign, had freed from detention in order - issues that must be resolved for cities and countryside become an

The status of CPP/NPA/NDF

First, what happens to the legal status of the CPP/NPA/NDF and their members who are now part

In 1957, the Anti-Subversion Act In 1969, the new CPP, founded by Lyceum Professor and chairman the NPA under Bernabe Buscayno, the streets and became the prin Marcos’ suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus and proclamation of martial law

jailed the CPP/ NPA/ NDF top insurgency, Marcos lifted martial law and restored the privilege of habeas corpus throughout the - sition leader Benigno “Ninoy” the Manila international airport where he had been on medical furlough for the last three years, creating massive indignation

In 1986, Marcos was ousted by and replaced by Cory Aquino, Ninoy’s widow, as revolutionary Cory did was to free the top communist leaders from detention, several others sought sanctuary in simply resumed their revolution 1991, when the Cold War ended, - grated, the Filipino communists -

allow members of the CPP/NPA/ NDF to enter the political main ideologues to run and get elected as party-list members of the House of Representatives, where they now members of the CPP/NPA/NDF to renounce armed struggle and to disarm, disband and reintegrate into the peaceful political mainstream, according to the normal protocol adopted by all other to intrude into the state’s exclusive right and power to use coercive physical force within the national territory and to impose taxes on

Despite the repeal of the antisubversion law and the on-again armed struggle continued, and CPP/NPA/NDF armed partisans state, without any legal conse - pected to have denied the human rights of a communist partisan punished, but not an NPA opera In most cases, as soon as a local to the NPA, it was dismissed as a

With respect to taxation, the CPP/ NPA/ NDF’s “revolutionary In Caraga alone, local businessmen estimate that the communists During elections, local or national, they impose a tax on candidates their supposedly controlled areas; they sell not only the so-called “permit to campaign,” but beyond

- does the government get rid of it? If the communists have no chance government, or at least coalescing with the government, what incentive do they have to pursue

A political misstep

of the CPP/NPA/NDF members to the Cabinet could have been a step in the right direction, had it been the result of a peace agreement, which puts an end to armed struggle and to “revolutionary taxes,” especially if supported by all, this is what’s happening all over Europe—former communists all embraced democratic politics

government was already a problem a problem if and when the Armed Forces begin to battle the NPA in communist appointees remain in government, while the Armed - las in the hills and the streets, how could the President assure himself

Whom to confuse

secret lies in confusing the enemy intent; but no commander can would be confusing his own communists, why are there still communists in the Cabinet? In the CPP/ NPA/ NDF split into the Sison’s leadership were called Reaffirmist, while those who By around 1998, it appears that the pro- Sison faction prevailed, and throw Sison in jail should he

with the CPP/NPA/NDF is limited to the Sisonites, but does not extend to Cabinet Secretary colleagues? How is one group to be distinguished from the other, and our people and the Armed Forces? Is there in fact a real distinction between the two factions, or is the distinction false? Is there no distract the government force, the accomplish what Napoleon called strategic envelopment?

government and all the communist forces, by cleansing and disinfecting the Cabinet and the bureaucracy of all communist elements, there against the communists would be denounced as bogus, or if it’s indeed real, the government could be outsmarted and overwhelmed

In the last couple of years, according to highly reliable intelligence sources, a number of from abroad have been seconded to the Philippines to help plan an various national security incidents steadily draw at least two-thirds of the same time clandestine shipments of arms from North Korea have reportedly found their way into the hands of the Moro army committee of the CPP/NPA/NDF, which has built a considerable weapons inventory close to the