The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) are the military forces of the Philippines. It consists of three main service branches;the Army,the Air Force,and the Navy. The President of the Philippines is the Commander-in-Chief of the AFP and forms military policy with the Department of National Defense,an executive department acting as the principal organ by which military policy is carried out,while the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines serves as the overall commander and the highest-ranking officer in the AFP.
The Philippine Constabulary was a gendarmerie-type military police force of the Philippines from 1901 to 1991,and the predecessor to the Philippine National Police. It was created by the American occupational government to replace the Spanish colonial Guardia Civil,happened on the 19th century history of the Philippines. It was the first of the four branches of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. On January 29,1991,it was merged with the Integrated National Police to form the Philippine National Police.
Fabian Crisologo Ver was a Filipino military officer who served as the Commanding Officer of the Armed Forces of the Philippines under President Ferdinand Marcos.
Rolex 12 is the collective name of twelve of the closest and most powerful advisers of President Ferdinand Marcos during the martial law years in the Philippines from 1972 to 1981.
The 1st Infantry Division,Philippine Army,nicknamed Tabak Division,is the Philippine Army's primary infantry unit,and specializes in anti-guerrilla warfare. The division has been involved in combating terrorists in Southern Mindanao.
The New People's Army rebellion is an ongoing conflict between the government of the Philippines and the New People's Army (NPA),which is the armed wing of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). It is the world's longest ongoing communist insurgency,and is the largest,most prominent communist armed conflict in the Philippines,seeing more than 43,000 insurgency-related fatalities between 1969 and 2008. Because the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) which is the legal wing of the CPP,is often associated with the conflict,it is often also called the CPP-NPA-NDF conflict,or simply the C/N/N conflict,especially in the context of peace talks with the Philippine government.
Benito Antonio Templo de León is a retired military officer of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). While a Roman Catholic,he was conferred the rare Muslim-Maranao honorary title of Sultan a Romapunut for his peace efforts. De León held the Army rank of major general and was the commander of the Philippine Army 5th Infantry Division until his designation as Inspector General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. He retired in 2016 after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 56.
Brig. Gen. Marcos Gulapa Soliman was a Philippine military officer who served as superintendent of the Philippine Military Academy,Commanding General of the Philippine Army,and upon leaving military service,chief of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency. He is best remembered in history as the then-anonymous whistleblower who exposed the plans of then-Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to place the Republic of the Philippines under Martial Law.
The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (CSAFP) is the highest-ranking military officer and the head of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP),including all service branches under its command. The position is usually held by a four-star rank of General or Admiral. Its direct equivalent in the US Armed Forces is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Unlike its US counterpart,which is merely supervisory,the Chief of Staff has complete operational control and is responsible for the overall operations of the AFP.
Voltaire Tuvera Gazmin is a retired Filipino soldier who was the 35th Secretary of the Department of National Defense of the Philippines. Gazmin assumed office on 1 July 2010,after President Benigno S. Aquino III had issued the former's appointment the day before.
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) in the Philippines is one of three components of the National Service Training Program,the civic education and defense preparedness program for Filipino college students. ROTC aims to provide military education and training for students to mobilize them for national defense preparedness. Its specific objectives include preparation of college students for service in the Armed Forces of the Philippines in the event of an emergency and their training to become reservists and potential commissioned officers of the AFP.
Manuel Tirso Tecson Yan,Sr. was a Cabinet Secretary of the Aquino,Ramos and Estrada administrations,World War II veteran and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from 1968 until 1972. He was said to be the last replaced official and obstacle to Ferdinand Marcos,and whose resignation made it possible for the ex-President to declare martial law in 1972. He holds the singular Philippine Government Record of continuous longest serving public Officer from April 1937 to January 2001 or a total 63 years and 9 months spanning twelve Philippine Presidents.
Eduardo Manahan Año is a Filipino public official and retired general of the Philippine Army who currently serves as the National Security Adviser under the administration of President Bongbong Marcos since 2023. He previously served as Secretary of the Interior and Local Government in the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte from 2018 to 2022,the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from 2016 to 2017,and the Commanding General of the Philippine Army from 2015 to 2016. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines,Año,along with the rest of the Philippine government's Cabinet Secretaries,became part of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases,a task force formed to advise the President on the strategies which would effectively manage the spread of COVID-19 in the country.
Batas Militar is a 1997 Filipino television documentary film about martial law under Ferdinand Marcos,and the ouster movement against him,the People Power Revolution. The film was directed by Jon Red and Jeannette Ifurung,with the former focusing on dramatizations.
Bartolome Vicente Orpilla Bacarro is a retired Philippine Army lieutenant general who served as the 58th chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from 2022 to 2023. He previously commanded the Southern Luzon Command. In 1991,Bacarro was awarded the Armed Forces of the Philippines Medal of Valor for his actions against the New People's Army in Maconacon,Isabela.
Carlito Guancing Galvez Jr. is a retired Philippine Army general serving as the Senior Undersecretary and briefly as officer-in-charge of the Department of National Defense since 2023 and Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process since 2018. He also served as the Chief Implementer of the Philippines' Declared National Policy Against COVID-19. In November 2020,he was appointed as the country's COVID-19 vaccine czar,and was responsible for leading the government's efforts in bringing into the country about 245.23 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of May 2022 beginning in 2021 despite the global vaccine shortage. Prior to this,he also previously served as the 50th Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from April to December 2018.
Antonio Gumba Parlade Jr. is a former Filipino military officer who retired as commander of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Southern Luzon Command in 2021,and was best known for his combative terms as spokesman for the Philippine Army before he was removed from that post in 2011,and later,as spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC).
Andres Castor Centino is a retired Philippine Army general who has served as the chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from January to July 2023 and previously from 2021 to 2022. He previously served as the 64th commanding general of the Philippine Army in 2021 and commander of the 4th Infantry Division from 2020 to 2021. Upon his retirement in 2023,Centino was named by President Bongbong Marcos as Presidential Adviser on the West Philippine Sea.
The Military history of the Philippines during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos,especially the 14-year period between Marcos' declaration of Martial Law in September 1972 and his final ouster through the People Power Revolution of 1986,was characterized by rapid changes linked to Marcos' use of the military as his "martial law implementor."
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