THE Department of National Defense would like to issue a clarification on the column of Mr. Rigoberto Tiglao published in The Manila Times on Feb. 12, 2024, titled "Año and Teodoro's witless knee-jerk press blabbers must be quelled."

We would like to point out that Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro Jr. did not say "[t]he military will use its forces to quell and stop any and all attempts to dismember the Republic," as quoted by Mr. Tiglao.

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