When you go to war, it takes weeks to prepare. It’s not some party where you could easily ask a friend to bring a bottle of red. This was how Armed Forces chief of staff General Gregorio Catapang Jr explained the military’s difficulty in immediately responding to the policemen who were trapped in a firefight with Moro rebels on January 25, citing the lack of “tactical coordination” with the Army troops on the ground. The sacked police commander in charge of the operation shot back and insisted they gave all the grid coordinates to the military. The investigation will bear him out, said police general Getulio Napeñas Jr. The battle of press conferences all happened in one day, February 4.
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