{"id":126048,"date":"2017-10-23T23:37:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T03:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=126048"},"modified":"2017-10-23T23:37:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T03:37:12","slug":"intel-appreciation-could-have-cut-short-marawi-campaign-ano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/23\/intel-appreciation-could-have-cut-short-marawi-campaign-ano\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel appreciation could have cut short Marawi campaign: A\u00f1o"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_122492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122492\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LTGEN_EDUARDO_A\u00d1O_AFP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122492\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LTGEN_EDUARDO_A\u00d1O_AFP.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Eduardo A\u00f1o made this statement when asked on what particular adjustments the military could have made to shorten or made the Marawi City campaign less costly or prolonged. (Photo By Philippine Army - Armed forces of the Philippines, CC BY-SA 4.0)\" width=\"768\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LTGEN_EDUARDO_A\u00d1O_AFP.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/LTGEN_EDUARDO_A\u00d1O_AFP-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Eduardo A\u00f1o made this statement when asked on what particular adjustments the military could have made to shorten or made the Marawi City campaign less costly or prolonged. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=53897399\">(Photo By Philippine Army &#8211; Armed forces of the Philippines, CC BY-SA 4.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">MANILA<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">\u00a0&#8212; If there is anything that the military could have done differently in the five-month battle for the liberation of Marawi City against the Maute Group terrorists, it would be in intelligence appreciation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Eduardo A\u00f1o made this statement when asked on what particular adjustments the military could have made to shorten or made the Marawi City campaign less costly or prolonged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">Around 920 terrorists were killed since the campaign in Marawi City started in May 23 while 165 troopers made the ultimate sacrifice in the course of the five-month campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">&#8220;<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'\">Siguro yung tinatawag nating<\/span><\/em>\u00a0appreciation sa intelligence information,<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'\">\u00a0marami nang mga dumating<\/span><\/em>\u00a0na information but we&#8217;re busy running after terrorists in Sulu (and) Basilan in Maguindanao,\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'\">so nagkulang tayo ng<\/span><\/em>\u00a0appreciation<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'\">\u00a0na<\/span><\/em>\u00a0this bunch of Maute-ISIS holed somewhere in Butig and Piagapo, they did the unthinkable which is occupy Marawi,\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'\">yun nagkulang tayo sa<\/span><\/em>\u00a0appreciation, &#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">And if they have time to do this, A\u00f1o said the AFP could have prepared and deployed more troops and equipment to counter the terrorists aside from employing commanders skillful in the use of intelligence and developing assets in the conflict area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; If there is anything that the military could have done differently in the five-month battle for the liberation of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":122492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[12727,29250,12048,20284],"class_list":["post-126048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-eduardo-ano","tag-intelligence-appreciation","tag-marawi-city","tag-maute-group-terrorists","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}