Exercise Balikatan - Global Security offers information on the US counter-terrorism training effort in the southern Philippines and the military units involved. - http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/balikatan.htm
Antiterror Fight: Why the Philippines? - Analyses the motivs for the US engagement. New York Times, US [free registration required]. - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/international/asia/10FILI.html