CAPP Events: 2002

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Philippine Defense Secretary Visits RAND

On August 15, the Santa Monica office hosted the Philippine Secretary for National Defense, Angelo Reyes, and several officials of the Philippine government.

Project AIR FORCE Director and Vice President Natalie Crawford welcomed the secretary and gave him an overview of RAND, briefly describing RAND's broad research portfolio. The visitors then participated in a videoconference with RAND analysts Roger Cliff and Angel Rabasa, who are engaged in research on Asian security issues. Topics discussed included the progress of efforts to defeat the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group in the southern Philippines, relations between Manila and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (another Muslim separatist organization), and the defense needs of the Philippines. Director of Project AIR FORCE's Strategy and Doctrine Program Ted Harshberger and Pardee RAND Graduate School dean Robert Klitgaard joined the discussion.

Secretary Reyes was accompanied on this visit by the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Philippine Armed Forces, General Narciso Abaya; the Deputy Chief of Staff for Planning, Colonel Emmanual Bautista; Defense Attache to the Philippine Embassy, Brig. General Delfin Lorenzana; Philippine Consul General to Los Angeles, Ruth Morales Prado; and Secretary Reyes' aide, Jason Jumawan. Also in attendance was Steven Duchesne of Weber Shandwick, a communications firm working in the Philippines.