Russia and China Deploy Drones and Submarines as the Philippines Faces New Sea Threats War at sea no longer announces itself with fleets on the horizon or cannons over open water. Today’s most consequential maritime weapons often remain invisible, slipping beneath waves, loitering silently for weeks, or operating autonomously without flags, radio calls, or crews….
10 Chinese Ships vs 1 Philippine Vessel How Beijing Turns Aggression Into “Routine Patrols” 10 Chinese Ships vs 1 Philippine Vessel. On paper, Beijing calls it a “routine patrol.” On the water, it looks very different. The overwhelming numerical imbalance is not accidental; it is designed. By surrounding a lone Philippine ship with coast guard…
China Is Watching the 9th U.S.–Philippines Patrol Very Closely! The West Philippine Sea has seen tension before, but nothing quite like this moment. As dawn breaks over contested waters, Philippine and U.S. warships slice through the waves in tight formation, their radars sweeping, their aircraft carving arcs across the sky. It is a scene that…
China Fires Flares at Philippines Aircraft as New EW Systems Activate in Spratlys A Chinese vessel firing military-grade flares at a Philippine patrol plane, just hours after new PLA electronic-warfare systems were activated across the Spratlys, signals a dramatic escalation in the West Philippine Sea. This is not an isolated incident. It is the opening…
A Taiwan Invasion Would Be an Emergency for Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea — Why Prime Minister Takaichi Is Right When Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi declared that “a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be an emergency for Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea and Japan will support the United States in the defence of…
How the Philippines Is Building a Missile Wall Against China — From BrahMos to Chu-SAM The Philippines is undergoing the fastest military transformation in Southeast Asia, evolving from a lightly equipped archipelago into a missile-armed frontline power at the heart of the West Philippine Sea. This shift comes at a moment when China has intensified…
China’s Growing Flotilla: Satellite Images Reveal New Flashpoints in the West Philippine Sea In December 2025, new satellite evidence from BBC Verify exposed a dramatic escalation in China’s naval posture across the Philippine Sea, revealing flotillas being resupplied at sea, far from home, and operating with the endurance of a true blue-water navy. What Philippine…
How the Philippine Army’s 10th Infantry ‘Agila’ Division Is Rewriting AFP Strategy For decades, the Armed Forces of the Philippines built its doctrine around internal security, fighting insurgents in jungles, mountains, and far-flung barangays. But that era has ended, and a historic strategic pivot has begun. What was once a military shaped by counterinsurgency is…
Japan Plans to Export Military Command & Control System to the Philippines Japan has a long history of not exporting weapons. However, sending the Philippines its first military command and control systems changes the situation. What does this mean for the countries of the Indo-Pacific? Japan and the Philippines are constructing networks and systems and…
Philippines-France Maritime Drills The Indo-Pacific is shifting in ways few imagined even a decade ago, and on November 26–28, 2025, that shift became visible on the waters off eastern Mindanao. In those quiet yet strategic seas, the Philippines and France conducted a maritime cooperative activity that signaled far more than routine naval drills. It marked…
