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 — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday commissioned two new vessels in Subic, Zambales, ...

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

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 ...

FOR decades, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) survived on a year-to-year allowance while potential adversaries ...

Malacañang on Wednesday stressed the need to continue the modernization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) so that the country would not be dependent on its allies. Palace Press Officer ...

MANIL — President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Friday cited the modernization program of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in combatting the threat of cybercrime to national security. In a ...

The modernization program of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is vital to achieving the country’s credible defense posture, the Palace said on Monday. In a press briefing in Malacañang, ...

The recent approval of the US State Department for the sale of 20 F-16s to the Philippines aligns with the Trump administration’s mantra of “deterrence through strength” – the same message that US ...

MANILA, Philippines – Senator JV Ejercito vowed his full support in securing sufficient and sustained funding for the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) modernization program amid persistent ...