MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 1 August) – Former president Fidel Valdez Ramos, a West Point graduate, was the consummate psywar expert. Among the top military officials serving the strongman Ferdina…
MALAYBALAY CITY – Former president Fidel Valdez Ramos, a West Point graduate, was the consummate psywar expert. Among the top military officials serving the strongman Ferdinand E. Marcos, he stood out as being deliberate in depicting the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army as a terrorist group. In statements and press briefings, he barely used “rebels.” He coined instead the term “communist terrorist” and later, “dissident terrorist” to refer to the insurgents.
Ramos disagreed with Ileto’s strategy of using sheer military force as the chief means to defeat the communists. He said it was more important to destroy the CPP-NPA’s political structure to deny its armed component a leadership. Early in his term, FVR succeeded in making Congress repeal RA 1700 or the Anti-Subversion Law as a gesture of goodwill to the NDF.
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