Silent War

by Victor N. Corpus

Colonel Victor Corpus’ Silent War provides a first-hand and honest look into the challenge of communist insurgency in the Philippines and submits his views on how it can be defeated. It is the first book ever written on insurgency by a member of the Armed Forces of the Philippines based on his own inside view of the enemy, by a man who actually lived and fought on the side of the insurgents and who, in fact, became a member of the Central Committee, the highest policy-making organ of the Communist Party of the Philippines.

Genres: Military Fiction

191 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Brigadier General Victor N. Corpus (AFP, Ret.) was an officer in the Philippine Army and instructor at the Philippine Military Academy who notoriously defected to the NPA in 1970 after raiding the PMA armory & absconding with a large number of assorted infantry weapons, which he then used to train troops for Comrade JoMa (Jose Maria Sison). Corpus became disillusioned with Sison as well as the rest of the communist leadership, and surrendered to the AFP in 1976. After spending the intervening years in a military prison, Corpus was released from detention & reinstated in the army as a reserve officer in 1987 by order of President Corazon Aquino. He held various posts in the AFP during the 1990s, and was eventually appointed chief of military intelligence (ISAFP) by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He ultimately retired from the army as a Brigadier General. Victor N. Corpus was appointed to head the Office of Veterans Affairs in the Republic of the Philippines Embassy to the U.S.A. in August 2009.

Reviews

[Karlo Mikhail · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gives a glimpse on the rudiments of post-Marcos counterinsurgency strategy and its keywords of gradual constriction campaigns, triad operations, venus-flytrap technique, etc. which remain in use in the brutal counterinsurgency operations by successive administrations of the past 3 decades

[Adolf Ian]

a must read for counter insurgency

[Malo Ezung · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book, I have lived it. Those who need to read this will do so and learn from it.