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Legarda wants urgent defense reforms: DND, AFP modernization
MANILA, Philippines – Senator Loren Legarda, the first woman to chair the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, ...
THE Philippines’ Department of National Defense (DND) is pushing to remove restrictions on both foreign and local financing for defense acquisitions and to scrap the 15-year timeline governing the ...
Yesterday, the forthcoming State Visit of the President of the Republic of Korea (ROK), H.E. Lee Jae Myung, to the ...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) further strengthened its capability to secure the country’s vast archipelagic ...
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AFP commissions 2 new Navy vessels to boost maritime defense
MANILA, Philippines — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday commissioned two new vessels in Subic, Zambales, ...
Domestic and international pressures may compel Marcos Jr. to continue the planned upgrades to the country’s armed forces.
SENATOR Win Gatchalian urged the Department of National Defense (DND) to leverage a provision in the General Appropriations Act (GAA) that allows government borrowing to accelerate the AFP ...
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Financing freedom, defending sovereignty
FOR decades, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) survived on a year-to-year allowance while potential adversaries ...
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AFP chief eyes more ‘deterrent’ weapons
MANILA, Philippines — Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. said the military would procure more missile systems, warships and fighter jets to boost the country’s deterrence ...
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