The U.S. Army will hold combat training in the Philippines as maritime tensions rise
Source: PBS News Hour/AP
World Apr 8, 2024 6:13 PM EDT
MANILA, Philippines (AP) The U.S. Army is introducing a joint battlefield training in the Philippines to improve combat readiness including by ensuring adequate supply of ammunition and other needs in difficult conditions in tropical jungles and on scattered islands, a U.S. general said.
The Biden administration has been strengthening an arc of military alliances in the Indo-Pacific to better counter China, including in any future confrontation over Taiwan. The U.S. moves dovetail with Philippine efforts to shore up its territorial defenses amid disputes with China in the South China Sea and ability to respond to frequent natural disasters.
About 2,000 U.S. and Philippine army forces will join the dayslong combat drills backed by helicopters and artillery fire against armed adversaries in a jungle setting in the northern Philippines in June, Maj. Gen. Marcus Evans, commanding general of the U.S. Armys 25th Infantry Division, said Sunday.
The combat training will be held in the Philippines for the first time at Manilas request. Its not clear whether the longtime treaty allies would decide to turn the maneuvers into an annual exercise, Evans said.
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Igel
(35,323 posts)Manila did the imperious. Asked the US to leave Subic Bay.
And the imperium US, the empire that would never relinquish territory, without a sound, exited.
The prediction failed. And yet the hypothesis--truly, the psy-ants method--held. Follow the fax tree, not the facts.
Later, the US was invited back in.
Oh, the wily ways of imperialists. Setting up the Philippines for US domination by encouraging the PRC and it's burgeoning supremacy.
A hypothesis is falsified, perhaps it's time to learn to spell and support the "science": a falsified hypothesis is called "wrong."
BumRushDaShow
(129,201 posts)We do have quite a good-sized Filipino community in the U.S.
I know my dad who was drafted for WW2, had shipped out to Noumea and fought in the Pacific theater including the liberation of the Philippines.