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, ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines – Senator Loren Legarda, the first woman to chair the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification, and Reconciliation, convened a hearing on February 24 ...

MANILA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine Congress has allocated 40 billion pesos (about 673 million U.S. dollars) in capital outlays for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) modernization ...

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 ...