Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized

tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

All right.

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

And don't get us started on Mel.

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you

travel with us. P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. This is the CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Manila in these last days.

The Philippines hailed an unprecedented high in defense ties with Japan

after the signing of a landmark military pact allowing deployment of forces on each other's

soil in the face of China's increasingly

assertive stance in the region. All good news, however, I welcome Grant Newsom

U.S. Marine Corps retired, and author of a book when China

attacks were thinking through this defense backed signed with much attention in Manila and asking questions that Grant

asked in his most recent Asia Times column about the Japanese Self-Defense Force.

What has the Philippines signed on? about the Japanese Self-Defense Force.

What has the Philippines signed on with?

This is not the Japanese Imperial Army that invaded the Philippines in 1941.

This is a Self-defense force that, Grant, a very good evening to you.

You write trenchantly, no matter how many F-35s Japan buys and deploys that doesn't change the nature of the

military personnel that they depend upon. What's happened to the Japanese Self-Defense Force these many decades? Is it ready to fight? Good evening to you.

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