Questionable deals

Questionable deals

A year before Rodrigo Duterte stepped down from power, there were some questionable deals on which the Department of National Defense had wasted so much precious resources.There were acquisitions that were decided politically and the end users were not asked if the...
What is the quid pro quo in the VFA restoration?

What is the quid pro quo in the VFA restoration?

United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin got what he wanted on his first high-profile visit to the Philippines last week. President Rodrigo Duterte took back the letter he had sent to the United States, expressing his intention to abrogate the two-decade-old...
Ending the Maoist-led insurgency

Ending the Maoist-led insurgency

The defense and military establishments are engaged in vicious and intensified psychological operations against the government’s main enemy — the communist rebel movement. They sought to demonize the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideology, long abandoned by communist states...