U.S. and Philippines Have a Complex Military Alliance: What to Know - The New York Times

US. and Philippines Have a Complex Military Alliance: What to Know

The three main components of the U.S.-Philippine army alliance are a 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty; a 1999 Visiting Forces Agreement that gave for large-scale military exercises; and a 2014 defense incompatibility that enabled the American military to station troops and weapons at five sites across the Philippines.

The Joined States military has also sent Special Operations forces to content counterterrorism missions in the southern Philippines, where Muslim insurgents have battled the Catholic-majority state for decades.

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A fraught colonial legacy

The Philippines once hosted some of America’s largest overseas army facilities. But the idea of hosting foreign troops in the land was politically sensitive, because many Filipinos saw the blueprint as a vestige of American colonialism.

In 1992, the Joined States had to vacate Subic Bay, its last base in the land, after street protests and the Philippine Senate’s decision to sunset America’s army presence. Subic Bay is near the South China Sea and was once home to a the majority U.S. naval contingent during the Cold War.

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