Once wholly reliant on the United States for defence, Manila now has missiles of its own. Some see them as a dangerous escalation The Philippines has entered the missile age, decades behind many of ...

After all, the US military’s relationship with the Philippines is a politically sensitive ... bringing the country back to the early 1970s, when Washington maintained the sprawling Clark Air ...

“That is the US,” she said. Valdez Fabros has been organizing against the US military presence in the Philippines since the 1970s, when the US-backed dictator President Ferdinand Marcos was in ...

Thitu, part of the Spratly Islands chain, was occupied by the Philippines in the 1970s and is now home to ... expanding and developing military outposts in the disputed waters and deploying ...