{"id":13856,"date":"2023-04-20T16:28:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/?p=13856"},"modified":"2023-04-20T16:28:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:28:25","slug":"us-military-presence-in-the-philippines-2016-to-april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/us-military-presence-in-the-philippines-2016-to-april-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"US military presence in the Philippines, 2016 to April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the Duterte administration\u2019s posturing against the US in 2016, the global superpower has essentially maintained a huge military presence in the Philippines until today. Cumulatively, from 2016 to April 2023, there have been a total of 227 drills: 68 sea-related, 116 air-related and 143 land-related. US troops are also currently located in 9 EDCA sites across the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/230420-us-mil-presence-in-ph-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/230420-us-mil-presence-in-ph-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/230420-us-mil-presence-in-ph-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/230420-us-mil-presence-in-ph-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/230420-us-mil-presence-in-ph-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/230420-us-mil-presence-in-ph-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/230420-us-mil-presence-in-ph-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/230420-us-mil-presence-in-ph-1000x1000.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Duterte administration\u2019s posturing against the US in 2016, the global superpower has essentially maintained a huge military presence in the Philippines until today. Cumulatively, from 2016 to April 2023, there have been a total of 227 drills: 68 sea-related, 116 air-related and 143 land-related. US troops are also currently located in 9 EDCA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3186,633,2185,3187,2972,2325,601,635,2592],"class_list":["post-13856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infographics","tag-balikatan-exercises","tag-edca","tag-enhanced-defense-cooperation-agreement","tag-indo-pacific-strategy","tag-marcos-jr-administration","tag-ph-us-relations","tag-us-military","tag-vfa","tag-visiting-forces-agreement","wpautop"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-01 11:43:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13858,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13856\/revisions\/13858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}