AFP welcomes P6-billion aid from US
By Mario J. Mallari 03/03/2012The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) yesterday welcomed the United States’ P6-billion aid for this year as a big boost to the ongoing capability in upgrading and modernization of the 125,000-strong military organization.
“This is a timely development as we are in the process of upgrading our capability toward external and territorial defense,” said AFP spokesman Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos Jr. at a press briefing in Camp Aguinaldo.
According to Burgos, the AFP’s internal peace and security plan “Bayanihan” is designed to shift the military’s focus to external defense by 2014 thus the need to modernize and upgrade its capability. The first three years of IPSP “Bayanihan” are intended to defeat the insurgency..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20120303nat4.html
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