Taiwan Conducts Naval Exercises - A Direct Provocation to the Philippines?

After a shooting incident just off the northern islands of the Philippines between a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) crewed but Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) owned patrol boat and 4 Taiwanese fishing boats, tensions have risen between the 2 countries. Taiwan...

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Indonesian Armed Forces Exercise LATGAB 2013 Part 1: Marines Embark!

The Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) is currently conducting a massive inter-services exercise dubbed LATGAB 2013, involving all the armed services. This started on April 15 and will end on May 29, 2013. Due to the quantity of photos available, I will be dividing this thread...

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Singapore Navy Open House 2013 - an open event to the public

The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) will have its Open House this weekend, May 18 & 19, 2013 at Changi Naval Base. Admission is free, and shuttle bus service to the naval base is available at the Singapore Expo Hall 3 According to the Ministry of Defence Website,...

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Fishingboat Shooting Incident: Is Taiwan Over-reacting?

Since the shooting incident involving a Taiwanese fishing boat and a Philippine law enforcement boat, Taiwan has been in a rage to "bring justice" to the death of one of its fisherman. In the meantime, everything seems normal on the Philippine side, elections has just been concluded...

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A Direct to the Point Analysis from Jose Antonio Custodio: How the PH handled territorial disputes over the years

Here's a very good analysis coming from a well known defense analyst. This was posted here due to its significance to Philippine defense policy. To Prof. Jose Antonio A. Custodio, good work! This was posted at Interaksyon.com as a special article, posted in its entirety here...

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Proposed Designs Offered for the Philippine Navy Frigate Program 2013 (2nd part of several posts)

Earlier we analyzed a possible Philippine Navy frigate configuration based on the information released by the Philippine Department of National Defense (DND) and the Philippine Navy (PN) to public media outfits, for public consumption. We also used basic information based...

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