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2020-09-29 Africa North

Philippines and Libya are looking to explore opportunities for defense cooperation over Daesh

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Posted by Fred 2020-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 Kind of a long logistics line.
Why don't the Phils just crush them?

Sympathetic population?

Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-29 09:22|| 2020-09-29 09:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Lots of Filipino medical personnel in Libya. Some have been attacked.

Posted by Uloter Ebbomolet9368 2020-09-29 09:31|| 2020-09-29 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Sympathetic population?
The Philippine Archipelago has many islands that are culturally distinct, even ethnically separate, think the Balkans on steroids. The Moro Islanders, for example, seem to hate everybody.
You might find Vic Hurley's Swish of the Kris(1936)[.pdf] interesting.

Posted by magpie 2020-09-29 11:11|| 2020-09-29 11:11|| Front Page Top

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