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Philippines NATIONAL SECURITY
Armed Forces: Armed Forces of Philippines (AFP), with
total active duty strength of 106,500 in late 1991: army 68,000,
navy 23,000 (including 8,500 marines and 2,000 coast guard), and
air force 15,500. Reserves totalled 128,000: army 100,000, navy
12,000, and air force 16,000.
Military Units: Six area unified commands, six naval
districts, and thirteen air force squadrons.
Equipment: Army: light tanks, armored infantry fighting
vehicles, armored personnel carriers, towed howitzers, mortars,
and recoilless rifles. Navy: frigates, patrol and coastal
combatants, amphibious ships and craft, auxiliaries, and rotary
and fixed-wing aircraft. Air Force: fighters, reconnaissance
aircraft, transport aircraft, helicopters, and training aircraft.
Military Budget: Approximately US$968.4 million in FY
1991.
Foreign Military Treaties: Mutual Defense Treaty
Between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of
America (1951).
Insurgency: In 1992 New People's Army (NPA), military
arm of Communist Party of the Philippines-Marxist Leninist a
formidable threat, especially in Luzon; Moro National Liberation
Front (MNLF) potential threat in the south.
Police: Philippine Constabulary combined with
Integrated National Police on January 1, 1991, to form Philippine
National Police under newly created Department of Interior and
Local Government.
Data as of June 1991
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