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Philippines, US begin joint military exercises for 2025

The exercises will focus on enhancing combined operations between their armies, large-scale manoeuvres, live-fire exercises and territorial defence.

Hanoi (VNA) - Around 5,000 soldiers from the Philippine Army and the US Army Pacific (USARPAC) on March 24 began three weeks of joint military exercises, focusing on territorial defence and commanding large-scale deployments of forces.

They are expected to take part in warfighting and exchange of expertise in the first phase of this year's Exercise Salaknib. The second phase is scheduled for later this year.

The exercises will focus on enhancing combined operations between their armies, large-scale manoeuvres, live-fire exercises and territorial defence.

The Salaknib exercises began in 2016 and are annual engagements between the two treaty allies, part of the broader Balikatan (shoulder-to-shoulder) training drills./.

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