US General Says Allied Forces Can Repel Asia Aggression as Philippines Combat Drills Open Thousands of allied American and Filipino forces opened annual combat drills that are set to include repelling an island...
US and Philippine Joint Combat Drills Show Trump Is Not Scaling Back on South China Sea Region A senior Philippine military official said U.S. and Filipino forces will undertake battle-readiness exercises, including live...
Canada and Philippines Will Sign a Key Defense Pact to Boost Combat Drills and Military Ties Canada and the Philippines, both vocal critics of China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the disputed South China Sea...
Philippine Defense Chief Warns Allies Will Fight if China Restricts Flights over South China Sea The Philippines and its security allies would take measures to counter any attempt by China to impose an air defense zone or...
Philippines Confident Trump Will Continue Military Patrols to Keep China in Check in Disputed Sea The Philippines' top diplomat to the United States expressed confidence that President Donald Trump’s new administration...
Chinese Navy Helicopter Flies Within 10 Feet of Philippine Patrol Plane over Disputed Shoal A Chinese navy helicopter flew within 10 feet (3 meters) of a Philippine patrol plane in a disputed area of the South China...
Pacific Commander Urges Faster Arming of Forces Adm. Samuel Paparo bemoaned what many senior commanders see as a slow, burdensome federal bureaucracy that has made it harder...
A Flurry of International Naval Drills Around the Philippines Prompts Complaints from Beijing A flurry of naval drills surrounding the Philippines involving the United States and its partners has prompted complaints...
US and Philippine Fighter Aircraft Jointly Patrol Disputed Shoal Region Guarded by China U.S. and Philippine fighter aircraft staged a joint patrol and training over a disputed South China Sea shoal where Chinese...
Philippines Launches Comic Book to Counter China’s 'Disinformation' in the Disputed South China Sea The Philippines launched a comic book to counter what the country says is China’s disinformation campaign to push its...
Hegseth Orders End to Race Consideration in Admissions at Military Service Academies Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered all military service academies to no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex for...
'Billion Dollar Spy' Is the Real Story of the Only Russian Agent Whose Portrait Hangs in CIA Headquarters The upcoming film, based on a book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman, stars Russell Crowe, Tony Goldwyn...
Pentagon Moves Out on Transgender Ban After Supreme Court Ruling About 1,000 service members who volunteered to leave the military after the Trump administration unveiled its transgender...
Soviet-Era Spacecraft Plunges to Earth After 53 Years Stuck in Orbit The chances of anyone getting clobbered by spacecraft debris were exceedingly low, scientists said.
Lessons Not Learned As this is being written on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the final end of the Vietnam War, that history is...
![Philippine Coast Guard and national security officials launch comic books](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-01/ApNewsroom_Philippines_China_Comic_Book_60168.jpg?itok=lMUtZdfI "Philippine Coast Guard and national security officials launch comic books, titled "the Stories of Teacher Jun," that discuss the complex South China Sea territorial disputes in simple terms, highlights the Philippine position and criticizes China's aggressive actions, in Manila, Philippines, Friday Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jim Gomez)")
