PH adopts Japan's 'one-theater' wartime concept

The Philippines is now operationalizing Japan's proposed "one-theater" concept which envisions the South China Sea, East China Sea, and the Korean Peninsula as a single and integrated theater of operations in wartime.

- By MARTIN SADONGDONG

Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said the "one-theater" concept will involve synergy in operations, domain awareness, intelligence exchange, and mutual reinforcement of each country's strengths among the Philippines, Japan, United States, South Korea, and Australia.

"Since the threats to Japan, the Philippines, and other like-minded countries are principally maritime, even in geography, Japan being an archipelagic nation and us, and in the aerial domain, it is reasonable since there is no land border involved to treat the area as one theater," he told reporters on Monday, June 30.