MANILA, Philippines – Senator Loren Legarda, the first woman to chair the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, ...

THE Senate on Tuesday began deliberations on measures aimed at strengthening and modernizing the country’s defense ...

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, ...

Yesterday, the forthcoming State Visit of the President of the Republic of Korea (ROK), H.E. Lee Jae Myung, to the ...

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 — The acquisition of F-16 fighter jets from the United States is part of the ongoing modernization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and is not directed against any ...

The Philippine Navy ship BRP Davao Del Sur takes part in the KAMANDAG 3 naval exercise along with assault amphibious vehicles from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marines, in Manila ...

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 ...

Our soldiers are victims as well of the plundering political elite. They’re deprived of critical facilities and basic gear. Politicos divert AFP modernization funds to pork barrels. Floods wreck ...