Deal with it a la James Bond. This was President Rodrigo Duterte's advice to soldiers as he urged them to be more responsive to the changing security environment by learning new skills.
"The most important thing here is you have to change paradigm. This is no longer a face-to-face war. So it's a matter of detection. Meaning to say, something is afoot and you have to detect to find out what it is," he said at the 48th anniversary celebration of the 250th Presidential Airlift Wing at Villamor Air Base last Tuesday.
"Parang James Bond na ang larong ito," he said.
The President explained that playing the game differently is "not so much about the display of the might... your 'might' might be stolen from you. So change it a bit because we are dealing with terrorists and there will be explosions after explosions until we find peace."
Duterte has warned that terrorism in Mindanao could metamorphose into a "full blown civil war" if left unchecked. He also believes that the key to the successful anti-terror campaign is knowing the enemy.
"You have to learn a little bit about your enemy... Study profiling. Start to profile the movements of the eyes, their native dialects. Those are the things that you should know," he emphasized.
Duterte said his administration is working to crush the Abu Sayyaf while talking to Muslim and communist rebels to address security threats in the country.
"As much as I would like to really be very strict about, you know, this thing about war but I am a President and my job is to seek the peace of the land," the President said.
Source: Philippine Star
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