Published March 3, 2021, 5:30 AM
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has assured the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) its full support to its plans and programs particularly for establishing a defense industrial ecozone in military reserves.
AFP Chief of Staff Lt Gen Cirilito Sobejana said this during PEZA’s 26th year anniversary celebration on 24 February 2021.
Caption: AFP Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana and PEZA Director General Charito Plaza
(Photo credit to PEZA)
Sobejana congratulated PEZA for “persistently promoting sound and balanced industrial, economic, and social development that continuously empower our people to become productive partners and integral catalysts for progress and nation building.”
3708 Bugbears: The three areas of prime concern in the charter of General Rawat (left) relate to jointry, acquisitions and administration. PTI
Gp Capt Murli Menon (Retd)
Defence analyst
Two decades after the Kargil Review Committee (KRC) and the consequent Group of Ministers recommended the creation of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), and eight years after the Naresh Chandra Committee recommended a permanent chairman of the chiefs of staff committee, the Indian government instituted the first CDS in January 2020.
Tasked essentially with promoting inter-service jointry and giving much-needed fillip to defence modernisation through timely and optimal defence acquisitions, the first incumbent to the post, General Bipin Rawat, has not given a lackadaisical performance, however contentious his initiatives have turned out to be so far.