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Philippine history tells the world, that no matter how small the country is and how weak its military, Filipinos don’t blink amid real armed threats—from the Spanish invasion in 1521 that killed the Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan to the epic Battle of Yultong in the Korean War in 1951 that turned the war in favor of the United Nations’ forces, the Philippines won’t just surrender to any superpowers, no matter what.
While the Turkey and Puerto Rican forces abandoned the Philippine Expeditionary Force to Korea (PEFTOK) in the Yultong hills, the 900-man Battalion Combat Team stood their ground bravely and defeated 40,000 PLA soldiers and deterred the Chinese Spring Offensive. 15 soldiers died, but no one blinked against the enemy’s artillery shellings.
This heroic acts led to the famous declaration of Gen. Douglas MacArthur when he said: Give me 10,000 Filipinos and I will conquer the world.
In 2014, the 40 Philippine Army UN peacekeepers in Syria defied a surrender order from their Indian UN force commander, and instead fought a 7-hour firefight against hundreds of Al-Qaeda members who surrounded them, then the Filipinos escaped toward Golan Heights. No soldiers died, not one blinked against the enemy’s artillery shellings.
The Filipino soldiers didn’t blink in the Spanish War, American War, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and the current war in the West Philippine Sea.
Echoing General MacArthur’s famous statement, I say give the Filipinos high-tech weaponries, state of the art airplanes and naval ships, and they won’t blink against the Chinese PLA forces ravaging the South China Sea.
But even at their current state of military armaments, Filipino soldiers are still looking the Chinese military straight in their eyes, and last thing they would do is blink. They can’t get Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific Region without going through the Philippines.