MANILA, Philippines – Senator Loren Legarda, the first woman to chair the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, ...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) further strengthened its capability to secure the country’s vast archipelagic waters, coastlines, and economic zones with the commissioning here on Tuesday, ...
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 ...
An F-16 fighter jet from the 2024 US-Philippine joint military exercises at Basa Air Base, Pampanga. — PHILIPPINE STAR/WALTER BOLLOZOS THE Philippines’ Department of National Defense (DND) is pushing ...
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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Financing freedom, defending sovereignty

FOR decades, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) survived on a year-to-year allowance while potential adversaries planned in decades. Fighter jets were debated, not bought. Submarines were ...