MORE focus will be given to the country's external defense following the government's significant gains in staving off efforts by communist rebels to sow chaos, National Security Adviser (NSA) Secretary Eduardo Año said.
'Yes, that is our objective, and we are confident that we are going to attain that objective,' the official said during a briefing after the security cluster's meeting with President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. in Malacañang last Thursday.The Chief Executive is bent on finally ending the Philippines' decades-old problem with local armed communist conflict and hopes to see that come into fruition when he steps down from office, Año said.
'Not only that, but we can also now reorient the focus of the Armed Forces toward external defense. Because, right now, we have so many geopolitical issues and challenges, so we need the Armed Forces to now focus [its] eyes on external defense,' Año said.
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