AFP Campaign Plan

Table 1: Summary of the AFP Campaign Plans, 1988-2010

Year AFP
Campaign Plan Remarks
1988 Lambat-Bitag Under this campaign, the AFP conducted over ten thousand operations against the CPP-NPA. It was claimed that this has contributed to the weakening of the CPP-NPA.
1994 Unlad Bayan AFP got involved in various development activities throughout the country (under Civil Military Operations, or CMO)
1996 Pagkalinga E.O. 216 and R.A. 6975 (An Act Establishing the PNP) became the legal basis of the Plan. It was meant to follow-up on the supposed ‘gains’ of Lambat Bitag. Aside from the primary mission of ISO against CPP-NPA, Pagkalinga facilitated further coordination of AFP-PNP efforts against the insurgency.
1997 Kaisaganaan An amalgamation

Arroyo gave the directive to crush the CPP-NPA-NDF by 2010, as well as destroy the ASG and other secessionist groups and links with JI. The strategic goal of the plan is to defeat all groups posing a threat to national security in order to enhance security and peace and order conducive to national growth and development.
2011 IPSP Bayanihan The IPSP Bayanihan puts premium on the role of the AFP in protecting the human rights of civilians. There is a clear paradigm shift in focus as the new plan deviates from the old (where state security is the focus), and underscore instead the primacy of people’s security.
It likewise attempts to bring in the views of civil society groups, from its inception to the development of evaluation metrics, unlike its predecessors that were formulated by military officers and defense department officials.
Source: Oreta and Tolosa. (2012, p.8). The AFP’s Bayanihan Plan: Assessing the Readiness of the Military Institution and Commitment of Security Stakeholders to the AFP’s Internal Peace and Security Plan (IPSP). Quezon City. Working Group on SSR-Department of Political Science, ADMU.

1.1.2 The IPSP

While the focus of the AFP assessment on IPSP is on the operational aspect, the researcher will try to look at the broader picture, particularly focusing on the AFP’s substantial compliance to the attainment of the IPSP’s strategic objectives and end-state based on the given planning timeframe (2011-2016). It will also try analyze external stakeholders’ view on how the AFP implements the Plan. As there is already a pending effort at OJ3, AFP as regards the survey of external stakeholders’ perception of IPSP Bayanihan, the researcher will try to supplement existing efforts by validating the acquired data thru appropriate research methodology. However, validation of data, both from internal and external sources, shall be limited only in two geographical areas –NOLCOM; and EASTMINCOM or CENTCOM. While the IPSP covers a six-year timeframe (2011-2016), data gathering for this study shall be limited until the 1st quarter of 2016. However, as the study progresses, the availability of new/additional data relevant to the study could be