Double Defense Budget Needed to Buy Modern Equipment – Lorenzana
Double Defense Budget Needed to Buy Modern Equipment – Lorenzana 30 Januari 2017 Increase budget needed to buy modern equipment for AFP (photo : Update) Lorenzana says Congress needs to boost Defense budget MANILA (PNA) --- There is a strong need for the House of Representatives to increase the budget of the Department of National Defense (DND) to enable it to acquire modern equipment for the military. This was disclosed by DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana in a press briefing Thursday. "You know I have been talking to some of the congressmen, I told them, we should increase our budget, we have been underfunded for the past 50 years so that we cannot buy modern equipment," he said in Filipino. Lorenzana cited the case of Singapore, which is a relatively small country compared to the Philippines and yet spends around three percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) for its defense needs. In contrast, he said the Philippines is only spending some 1.2 percent of its GDP for defens...