Now the armed forces of the Philippines has officially announced thru one of their spokesperson that indeed PH is now under an information war against China. Although they just announced it recently, the information war between PH and China has been happening already for quite sometime now due to the conflict brought about by China encroaching into PH territories, with the motive of securing natural resources and taking advantage of strategical territory foothold in the event of China's reunification with Taiwan.

The purpose of the information war is upper hand in propaganda with the aimed effects of military and civilian demoralization, assertion of China's superiority in terms of military, technology, and morals. It is also about the narrative that China is in the moral right and PH is in the moral wrong.

The conflict actually started way before the Aquino administration and during those times, China and other countries with claims in the island within PH territory will build structures just to be blown away by the PH NAVSOG and that kind of warfare was regular on all parties. Then come the Aquino administration where the conflict escalated and became a national issue and brought to the international community where PH won the ruling. Duterte administration came and PH became open to Chinese and of course that means free flow of Chinese spies to the country and such gave way for more leverage to China on the information warfare that is waged later on to PH.

So the admission of the armed forces that indeed an information war is happening already between PH and China is also a signal for a potential greater conflict that might involve a full blown war in the future. Hence, the government is pushing aggressively to draft more individuals to the reserve force and actually is currently thinking of forced draft or conscription which I think the latter is the best one.

Personally I think war will come to PH shores and the war that will happen is also a new kind of war in the likes of what we've seen so far in Ukraine and in Iran.

So maybe my tactical, intel, scuba, surveillance, and security & risk trainings will be used in that upcoming war and not really for a PMC career 😅

But yes, I'm ready. If that war comes, then let it come.