National Defense College of the Philippines
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Politics of the Philippines
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responsible for providing continued and intensive studies of the diverse problems relating to national defense and security. It is under the Department of National Defense
Department of National Defense (Philippines)
The Department of National Defense is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for guarding against external and internal threats to peace and security in the country...
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History
The National Defense College of the Philippines was first conceived in 1957 when the military advisors of the Southeast Asia Treaty OrganizationSoutheast Asia Treaty Organization
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines. The formal institution of SEATO was established on 19 February...
(SEATO) proposed the setting-up of a SEATO War College in the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
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Cognizant of the need to establish a higher educational institution in the military that would be an institution at the zenith of the defense establishment where civilian-military cooperation for national security could be effectively forged, President
President of the Philippines
The President of the Philippines is the head of state and head of government of the Philippines. The president leads the executive branch of the Philippine government and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines...
Diosdado Macapagal
Diosdado Macapagal
Diosdado Pangan Macapagal was the ninth President of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the sixth Vice President, serving from 1957 to 1961. He also served as a member of the House of Representatives, and headed the Constitutional Convention of 1970...
signed Executive Order No. 44 on August 12, 1963, authorizing the establishment of the National Defense College of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
Armed Forces of the Philippines
The Armed Forces of the Philippines is composed of the Philippine Army, Philippine Navy and Philippine Air Force...
(NDCAFP) and putting the College under the administrative and operational guidance of the AFP Chief of Staff. The College opened classes on February 15, 1966.
There were legislative moves to pass a law creating the National Defense College of the Philippines. In the House of Representatives, Congressman Manuel A. Zosa filed the House Bill No. 1420 in 1970 proposing an “Act Creating the National Defense College of the Philippines and for other Purposes.” Also in the same year, Congressman Ramon D. Bagatsing filed the House Bill No. 1447 proposing an “Act Creating the National Defense College of the Philippines, Providing an Academic Board, and for Other Purposes.” In the Senate
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, Senator Leonardo B. Perez filed the Senate Bill No. 597 proposing an “Act Creating the National Defense College of the Philippines and for other Purposes.” However, these legislative proposals did not reach third reading because President
President of the Philippines
The President of the Philippines is the head of state and head of government of the Philippines. The president leads the executive branch of the Philippine government and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines...
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...
dissolved the Philippine Congress.
President
President of the Philippines
The President of the Philippines is the head of state and head of government of the Philippines. The president leads the executive branch of the Philippine government and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines...
Marcos
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...
subsequently issued Presidential Decree No. 190 in 1973 to formally create the NDCP to "fulfill the need for an institution that will provide for continuing and intensive studies of the diversified problems related to national defense and security." NDCP was then placed under the Office of the Secretary of National Defense
Department of National Defense (Philippines)
The Department of National Defense is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for guarding against external and internal threats to peace and security in the country...
in 1974 by virtue of P.D. No. 452.
The Academic and Admission Boards were later established to oversee the academic program of the College. To carry out its teaching function, the NDCP draws top experts from the academe and senior officers with command and staff experiences from the major services of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
Armed Forces of the Philippines
The Armed Forces of the Philippines is composed of the Philippine Army, Philippine Navy and Philippine Air Force...
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Lectures by foreign diplomats, technical experts and defense leaders also complement the instruction at the NDCP. The NDCP has managed to grow beyond its modest beginnings to train leaders in the military and civilian bureaucracy in strategic thinking.
On February 22, 1998, the College moved to its new and modern three-story building in the Academic Row, Camp Emilio Aguinaldo
Emilio Aguinaldo
Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. He played an instrumental role during the Philippines' revolution against Spain, and the subsequent Philippine-American War or War of Philippine Independence that resisted American occupation...
in Quezon City
Quezon City
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Master in National Security Administration Program
The Master in National Security Administration (MNSA) Program is the main academic program of the NDCP. It is a one-year, full-time master's degree course consisting of 39 units earned through various forms of classroom work, case studies, regional security and development studies and academic enhancement travels.The MNSA curriculum focuses on the various dimensions of national security
National security
National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II...
management:
- socio-cultural dimension
- political-legal dimension
- economic dimension
- techno-scientific dimension
- environmental dimension
- military dimension
The MNSA is open to military officers, government officials and private sector leaders. Students write a national security
National security
National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II...
-oriented thesis. Civilian graduates are commissioned Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant colonel
Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine forces and some air forces of the world, typically ranking above a major and below a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence...
s or Commander
Commander
Commander is a naval rank which is also sometimes used as a military title depending on the individual customs of a given military service. Commander is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the armed forces, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Commander as a naval...
s in the AFP
Armed Forces of the Philippines
The Armed Forces of the Philippines is composed of the Philippine Army, Philippine Navy and Philippine Air Force...
Reserve Force.
Institute for National Security Studies
The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) administers the research program of the NDCP. It embodies the College's effort to be the center of excellence in strategic thinking on national securityNational security
National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II...
matters in the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
and in the Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific or Asia Pacific is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean...
region.
Crisis Management Institute
The Crisis Management Institute (CMI), formerly the Emergency Management Institute of the Philippines (EMIP), is envisioned to be the country's center for education, training, and research on crisis managementCrisis management
Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a major event that threatens to harm the organization, its stakeholders, or the general public. The study of crisis management originated with the large scale industrial and environmental disasters in the 1980's.Shrivastava, P....
, terrorism
Terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
, and other transnational crime
Transnational crime
Transnational crimes are crimes that have actual or potential effect across national borders and crimes which are intra-State but which offend fundamental values of the international community...
s, and as the premier training resource for technical cooperation in emergency management in the Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific or Asia Pacific is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean...
region.
Defense Management Institute
The Defense Management Institute (DMI), formerly the Institute for Extramural and Continuing Studies (IECS), is envisioned to be the key training institution on certificate and diploma courses on National Security Administration and to be a recognized training institution in the Asia-PacificAsia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific or Asia Pacific is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean...
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Alumni Affairs
Many government and business executives have graduated from the MNSA program; they comprise the general membership of the NDCP Alumni Association. The NDCP has produced the following alumni:- Fidel Ramos - former Philippine President and Secretary of National Defense
- Jejomar C. Binay, LLB, MNSA Vice President of the Philippines and former Mayor, Makati City
- Emmanuel Velasco, LLB, MNSA Cavite Provincial Prosecutor
- Ma. Alicia Austria-Martinez, LLB, MNSA - Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court
- Gilbert Teodoro - former Secretary of National Defense
- Brigadier Gen. Manuel W. Manaligod - former Vice President of National Defense
- Daniel Martinez, LLB, MNSA - former Clerk of Court of the Philippine Supreme Court
- Loren LegardaLoren LegardaLoren Legarda is a Filipino broadcast journalist, environmentalist, and politician of Visayan ancestry, notable as the only female to top two senatorial elections . During the 2004 Philippine general election, she ran for the position of Vice-President as an Independent with Fernando Poe, Jr...
- Philippine Senator and former broadcast journalist at ABS-CBNABS-CBNABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ... - Teresa Aquino-OretaTeresa Aquino-OretaMaria Teresa Aquino-Oreta , better known as Tessie Aquino-Oreta, was a Philippine senator. She was the chairperson of the Senate Committee on Education, Arts and Culture in the 11th Congress....
- former Philippine Senator and former Malabon-Navotas Representative - Herbert Constantine Bautista, MPA, MNSA - Quezon City Mayor
- Peter P. Ng, BSMT, MPH, MHA, GSC, MNSA, MD, FPAFP, LLB, PhD - Physician-Lawyer-Scientist. Medicolegal Practice.
- Jesus Edwin A. Villasor, AB, LLB, LLM, GSC, JCSC, MNSA, PhD Former Regional Trial Court Executive Judge and Retired Deputy Court Administrator at the Supreme Court
- Jose C. Vitug, AB, LLB, LLM, MNSA, FCJEI Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and now Chairperson of the Philippine Stock Exchange
- Gloria J. Mercado, AB, MNSA, PhD Dean, Development Academy of the Philippines
- Aida C. Talavera, BSC, MNSA Director, Commission on Audit
- Hilario S. Caraan, AB, LLB, MNSA, DPA Commercial Law Faculty and Discipline Director, De La Salle University
- Robert Dean Barbers - Former Chairman of the Philippine Tourism Authority.