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JoeAmFrom Awareness to Presence: A Comprehensive Philippine Maritime Strategy
By Karl Garcia Executive Summary The Philippine Navy’s modernization is outpacing its shore infrastructure, creating an operational gap that threatens readiness, sovereignty, and fiscal discipline. Simultaneously, the nation faces a strategic challenge: converting legal rights and maritime domain awareness into sustained, credible presence. The solution requires integrating three elements: (1) a tiered basing and access … Continue reading
Philippine Naval Modernization: A Structural Failure Analysis
The Constitutional–Bureaucratic Trap Preventing Maritime Defense Capability By Karl Garcia EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This article demonstrates that Philippine naval modernization fails not from insufficient funding, corruption, or planning deficiencies, but from a fundamental structural contradiction: program laws authorizing long-term defense capital collide with a constitutionally annual, executive-dominated budget system that systematically nullifies multi-year commitments. Key Finding: … Continue reading
Philippines at a Crossroads: Why Continuity-Focused Leadership Could Be the Ultimate Game Changer
By Karl Garcia The Philippines stands at a pivotal moment in its history. Our economy continues to grow on paper, yet wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a few, the middle class is shrinking, and public finances face mounting pressures. Ordinary Filipinos struggle with rising costs of living, stagnant wages, and limited opportunities for … Continue reading
ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE PHILIPPINES
By Karl Garcia In the Philippines, accountability often follows two tired scripts. Either authorities hunt for a single “mastermind” to blame, or they cast a wide dragnet to prove action is being taken. Both are politically convenient—and both consistently fail. The mastermind narrative is comforting. It reduces corruption to one villain, one face to condemn. … Continue reading
Shipbuilding Without Shipbuilders — and a Flag Without a Fleet
By Karl Garcia We boast that we are the world’s “fourth-largest shipbuilder,” a line lifted from an OECD report that counted repair yards and workforce size. But UNCTAD’s actual tonnage data tells a harsher truth: we produce barely 1% of global output, far behind China, Korea, and Japan. “Fourth” is not strength; it is statistical … Continue reading
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The Society of Honor by Joe America 