YEAR-END REPORT: Philippine military transforms daunting challenges to concrete opportunities in 2019 0 SHARES Share it! It remained on a quest to achieve the seemingly elusive peace with the five-decades old problem on Communist insurgency. However, General Noel Clement, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff, said the challenges that the country faced in 2019 were turned into “concrete opportunities.”“The year 2019 has been replete with daunting challenges, which the Armed Forces was able to transform into concrete opportunities,” Clement said. The military also monitored an increase in the number of Chinese fishing boats swarming the territories in the West Philippine Sea. This year, the AFP had 468 encounters with the Communist groups that also resulted in the dismantling of 12 guerilla fronts across the country, Clement said.

Source: Manila Bulletin December 29, 2019 12:11 UTC