Dealing with maritime and airspace intrusions
On Thursday morning last week, the Philippine Air Force scrambled to fly its jets after an air defense radar detected an unknown plane intruding into the country’s airspace.
‘Walang alisan’: Tough words vs China ahead of 2022 polls
On Sunday, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana vowed to keep the Philippines’s navy and coast guard vessels in the country’s 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, challenging China’s dominant presence.
UP-DND pact “has done good” – Atienza
For Deputy Speaker Lito Atienza, the 1989 pact between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of National Defense (DND) “has done good” in the past 30 years.
Does Duterte support the termination of the UP-DND pact? ‘Of course,’ says Palace
Lorenzana on Jan. 15 notified UP President Danilo Concepcion that the agreement, executed on June 30, 1989, was unilaterally terminated.
Military chief sidelined by Covid-19; defense secretary on self-quarantine
Malacañang spokesman Salvador Panelo defends the president’s decision to put military men, some of them already sidelined by the virus, in charge of the war against Covid-19.