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Here's something to look forward to in 2011
Topic Started: Oct 25 2005, 04:30 AM (4,209 Views)
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Air Force says external security not a priority
The Philippines is virtually defenseless to any aerial attacks after the Philippine Air Force admitted that it was not buying new fighter planes until 2011, nothing that external security was not a government priority at this time. According to Air Force deputy spokesman Maj. Augusto de la Peña, the Philippine Air Force and the Department of National Defense have no plans to replace the 37 F-5 fighter jets decommissioned last month. (BusinessWorld)
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That is just the current (year 2005) plan.

Nevertheless, it can still change if someone takes over the top post.
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x x x nothing that external security was not a government priority at this time.


what the hell?! what kind of a mindset is this! :bs:
"To secure peace is to prepare for war." - Carl Von Clausewitz
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That's why we lost the Mischief Reef.

WE ALWAYS THINK THAT WE ARE SECURED ENOUGH! :bs:

Even our Air Force guys do not know what they need to say or do .... to convince the decision-makers that we REALLY NEED NEW CHOPPERS AND PLANES! :dontgetit:

No wonder we arent getting any new assets ... but just more assholes in the department!
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WTF? External security not a priority? What kind of leftie-pinko swish would want to think this way?

:bs: :bs: :bs:

Every other country in SEAsia is building up, and we, on the flank of the busiest seaway and the most important sealanes in Asia, would rather not defend our own posterity?

Shite! :fire:
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The National Command Authority (The President, VP, members of Cabinet and the CSAFP) could have decided that insurgents and terrorist groups present a much more serious threat to national security. It can also be surmised that these internal security problems (plus sectors within the pposition) pose a serious challenge to the legitimacy of the embattled Arroyo administration and its agenda.

It is also possible that our current Defense Posture was heavily influenced by the US Government. The US believes that Jemaah Islamiya operatives use some pockets here in the country for training and as springboards of their operations.

The Philippine Government feels see diplomacy and accommodation as a solution to its external security issues. It is not only cost-effective but politically acceptable. Some sectors within the Philippines see large-scale rearmament as counter-productive and make the AFP a more dangerous politivcal force.

Unfortunately, such measures to co-opt with the Chinese (seen by many as our leading external threat), whose economic and military power is growing, aren't effective. Evidence would suggest that the Northrail project contracted by Chinese companies favors Chinese interests more than that of the Philippines, Also, local industries suffer from the inundation of our markets with cheap and substandard Chinese products brought in through legitimate and illegitimate means courtesy of free trade agreements.
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what was it i said before? 10 billion lost to fish poachers a year, off shore oil and gas deposits in the trillion of dollars lost. investments lost due to unrest. tourist dollars lost due to terrorism. need i go further? economically, it just does not make sense. in fact, from all angles, it makes no sense (unless you are a bleeding heart liberal who think all problems can be solved by "talking it out and make people understand"). :headbang:
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Oct 27 2005, 02:21 AM
what was it i said before? 10 billion lost to fish poachers a year, off shore oil and gas deposits in the trillion of dollars lost. investments lost due to unrest. tourist dollars lost due to terrorism. need i go further? economically, it just does not make sense. in fact, from all angles, it makes no sense (unless you are a bleeding heart liberal who think all problems can be solved by "talking it out and make people understand"). :headbang:

All because of our lawmaker's stupidity! :bs:
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Oct 25 2005, 09:35 AM
That is just the current (year 2005) plan.

Nevertheless, it can still change if someone takes over the top post.
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Arroyo orders single release mode of military, police funds

First posted 11:44am (Mla time) Oct 27, 2005
By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
INQ7.net

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal is giving more "financial muscle" to the military and the police to make them more equipped in fighting terrorism and agents of destabilization.

Arroyo on Wednesday ordered the Department of Budget and Management to "adopt a one-time mode for releasing funds" for the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police.
"No matter how beautiful our beaches are, if we have turmoil like the turmoil of 1983 that drove Hilton away for the first time around, we will not be able to strengthen our economy," Arroyo said in a speech at the opening of the Hilton Hotel in Cebu.

The hotel reopened on Mactan Island after leaving the politically turbulent country in 1983.

Budget Secretary Romulo Neri said Arroyo’s order meant releasing the entire budget of the AFP and the PNP instead of the current quarterly release.

To strengthen the republic, Arroyo said institutions should be "given financial muscle" similar to what the operators of the Hilton Hotel acquired to run the hotel anew. The Osmeñas run the hotel.

Amid talks of rumblings among the military and the police and several retired generals, Malacañang stood firm that the armed forces remain loyal to the President.

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See?

The one on top can do a lot if she or he wishes to. :armywink:



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may god help us all.... :drunk:
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