[ANALYSIS] Marcos’s challenge in 2025: to unify fractured security team

If President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. asks to be briefed on the national security situation in 2025 and its geopolitical implications — including strategies and policy responses — to whom would he give the task? Will it be Eduardo Año, his national security adviser (NSA)? Or Gilberto Teodoro, the defense secretary? Or Enrique Manalo, his foreign affairs secretary? Or all of the above?

Ideally, it is the national security adviser. The NSA should have the big picture, equipped with an understanding of defense issues...