AFP to replace IPSP 'Bayanihan' with new campaign plan

From the Philippine News Agency (Dec 18): AFP to replace IPSP 'Bayanihan' with new campaign plan

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will be implementing a new campaign plan to win and maintain the peace in the countryside aside from defeating national security threats.

This was bared by AFP public affairs office chief Col. Edgard Arevalo Sunday.

The new campaign plan will replace Internal Peace and Security Program "Bayanihan," which is scheduled to end this year after being first implemented in Dec. 22, 2010.

The latter aims to “provide the strategic guidance in the performance of (the AFP’s) mandated functions of protecting the state and the people. It shall help AFP units in planning for and contributing to the attainment of internal peace and security.”

Arevalo said AFP chief-of-staff Lt. Gen. Eduardo M. Año would formally announce the name of the new campaign plan during the AFP Foundation Day this coming Dec. 21.

"We will be implementing the new campaign plan starting January 2017. But there will be no formal launching. The CSAFP (Chief-of-Staff, AFP) is expected to announce it in his anniversary speech," he added.

For the moment, the military official said he could not give an exact description of the new AFP campaign plan except a technical working group was formed to craft the study, deliberation and assessments.

"In a nutshell, we can say the new AFP campaign plan is about the military possible role in nation building and defeating the enemies of the state or threats to national security," Arevalo said.

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