I trained with PH army before.Their infantry soldiers are tough and fit but equipments hopelessly obsolete. In one instance during joint live firing exercise, their OV-10 was supposed to drop dumb bombs at a designated target zone on the slope of a mountain.instead the bombs overshot to the other side of the mountain.
Coincidentally when i was there in 95' , that was when the first flared up in SCS happened.
My friends Dad served in the PH military, in the Army to be exact (back in the 1970's to 1995 ) pacifying the restive regions of Maguindanao, Cotabato, Tawi-Tawi, Jolo (regions with majority Muslim aboriginals to those islands). While there's no doubt that Philippine military service people have to be tough like any and all militaries, they have no other choice. It's not a feature but a bug.
Chuck Norris (when he was filming his Vietnam war series in that country) made fun/disparaged the Philippine choppers (American donated/hand me downs Huey) for it's constant breakdowns and issues. You have officers using those same choppers as their personal transport to ferry their wives or to their other wives. Bravery and toughness are traits that are not exclusive to the Jai Hind Pinoy Powers delusional idiots. They don't have the tech, the current tech and military structure, doctrine, logistics to even DREAM OF COMBATTING THE CHINESE.
Please see the recent MARAWI battle the Philippine Military waged for freaking 6 MONTHS against the Maute group numbering in the hundreds. The PH military had to be assisted for their ISR by Australia, America, and got firearms donations from China and if not mistaken Russia as well.
I don't respect the PH especially their leaders in the military, police, and it's political so-called leaders. Recognition and elevation to higher responsibilities "ARE NOT BASED ON MERIT" but through patronage, schemes, and backstabbing resulting on leaders getting roles they should have not been given. Which is why we're having this idiotic false bravado from the idiotic PH. They are CLUELESS to the difference of power between their country and China. And much of that confidence is again equally retarded thinking that another MacArthur like figure would save them from those dastardly CCP-Chinese.
A country that couldn't even dent it's colonizers the Spaniards, the Americans to leave unlike the Vietnamese, Koreans, and especially the Chinese is not worth of any respect. They are ass kissers to the highest degree, and racist to boot especially AGAINST CHINESE which f..Ng hilarious .