The Philippines has embarked on an ambitious and yet necessary programme of defence modernisation as it seeks to enable the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to recover from years of neglect since the pull-out of US Forces. The current defence modernisation programme is not the first time that a Philippine government has tried to confront the task of military modernisation. However, now modernisation is imperative as Philippine sovereignty is challenged from conventional and asymmetrical forces.
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