You do know, that my so-called "reaction", was just a basic-level dismissal and comment of the Philippino military capabilities. And consider the news/Philippino government currently to be as credible as North Korean threats, I don't think that can even be remotely be considered country-bashing.
I'm surprised by your reaction though.
And for all honesty, Xe(formerly blackwater) and some PMC probably can execute better organizations and operations than the Philippino government.
I don't know I agree with your statement. North Korea at least shot up an South Korean island. I am not aware of any notable military action other than turning tail by Filipino military against an opponent that can shoot back. Compare to North Korea, Philippine is deficient on both will and capability, by objective standard.
Philippine's military budget is actually not that bad -- around 2.9 billion USD. Consider Taiwan only spend around 10 billion USD on defense. Philippine should be able to sustain a capital stock that's around 30% of Taiwan. But Philippine has no air force to speak of, it's navy is non-existent, and its army is a faction of Taiwan's. So where did all the resources go?
Philippine now spend around 1% on defense, which is low by global average. With a growing economy, pushing that to 2% shouldn't be a major drain. And around 5 billion, that's about what Indonesia spend on defense now. So even this carrier (plus the escorts) are potentially affordable. The question is whether Philippine government is effective enough to bring it off. And from the objective observation, probably not.
