'Protector of the people'
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Salvaging what’s left of the AFP
Ben Lim for abs-cbnnews
The concern is not that the AFP should follow civilian authority. The constitution mandates the AFP to do so. The problem is to be able to distinguish those orders that serve personal agenda of the Commander-in-Chief from the core agenda of protecting the Filipino people. We need an intelligent military leadership committed to protect our people and our national interests, not collaborators who seek to profit from their positions due to their possession of firepower. read on
Reforming the Armed Forces
Rene N Jarque
August 2003
The Magdalo Group mutiny last 27 July has again revived the issue of unprofessionalism and corruption in the Armed Forces. The grievances show that the AFP has not really changed much 17 years after the 1986 EDSA Revolution, that past reform movements have not really renewed the AFP, that changes have been merely cosmetic. In propaganda work, “a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth” and one of the biggest lie told by many a general is that the AFP has become professional. read on
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