The year 2024 is one for the books in terms of the Philippines' push to improve its defense capabilities, protect territorial ...

In May, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said that Balikatan 2025 will simulate a “full-scale” battle scenario. Paparo ...

Washington announced last month that their annual Balikatan exercise with the Philippines would be their largest ever - involving more than 17,000 troops, including 12,000 from the US. The two ...

In a show of force aimed at China, the three-week Balikatan "shoulder to shoulder" exercise gets under way on Monday and will be the biggest held between the two countries since its launch in 1991.

The Typhon missile system has raised tensions between Manila and Beijing after its deployment in US-Philippine military ...

Credit goes to the United States’ F-35 using a laser-guided bomb unit,” Colonel Michael Logico, spokesman for Exercise Balikatan, told The Straits Times. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos ...