As the maritime dispute between the Philippines and China heats up, there is but one strategy that must be done to defend the country's interests in the West Philippine Sea (WPS): military build up. This was bared by National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. on Sunday, May 2, as Beijing...
The administration of President Duterte has not allowed even a single inch of the country's maritime territory to be seized by China unlike his predecessor, the Aquino administration, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said Saturday, May 1. Esperon made the assertion as he criticized...
National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. made a promise on Saturday, May 1, that he will look into the Senate's call for the removal of Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. as a spokesperson of the government's anti-insurgency task force. Senators Panfilo Lacson and Franklin Drilon have insisted...
National Security Adviser (NSA) Hermogenes Esperon Jr. challenged senators and congressmen on Saturday, May 1, to defund the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) if they want the national government's anti-insurgency efforts to go to waste. Esperon, vice chairperson...
So who's telling the truth? Officials of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) have issued contradicting statements about the censorship of its spokespersons due to the "red-tagging" of community pantries. Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO)...
No less than President Duterte will take the lead in the government's campaign to eradicate the threat of local communist insurgency to ensure that it will be completed at the soonest time possible, National Security Adviser (NSA) Hermogenes Esperon Jr. bared in a statement. President Rodrigo Roa...