HOW TO DEFEAT HYBRID WAR & WHY PHILIPPINES POSES CHALLENGE FOR THE US VIA CHINA

How to Defeat Hybrid Warfare Before It Starts
 // Luke Coffey
A well-governed society is a resilient society.

Gregory B. Poling and Eric Sayers write: A storm is brewing in America’s oldest security alliance in the Indo-Pacific and the administration needs to act quickly to head it off. On December 20, Philippine Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana called for a review of the provisions of the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) between Washington and Manila.[…] The primary reason for this review is what Lorenzana called America’s “ambivalence” about whether the treaty applies in the South China Sea, where Philippine troops and facilities are under threat from an increasingly assertive China. – War on the Rocks