Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

===Vietnam War===
[[File:LBJ meets with Ferdinand Marcos in Manila 1966-10-23.JPG|thumb|President Marcos (left) and his wife [[Imelda Marcos|Imelda]] (center) meet with US President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (right) in Manila in October 1966.]]

Under intense pressure from the Johnson administration,<ref name="McMahon1999">{{Cite book |url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=lx0MWRuKtUkC|page=141}} |title=The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II |last1=McMahon |first1=Robert J. |authorlink=Robert J. McMahon |date=1999 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231108812 |page=141 |access-date=September 3, 2020 |archive-date=November 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107161424/https://books.google.com/books?id=lx0MWRuKtUkC&pg=PA141#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live}}</ref> Marcos reversed his prior position of not sending Philippine forces to Vietnam,<ref name="McMahon1999" /><ref name="showingflag">{{cite web |last1=Jagel |first1=Matthew |title="Showing Its Flag": The United States, The Philippines, and the Vietnam War |url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/91307/1/showing%20its%20flag_19836-Article%20Text-46661-1-10-20130711.pdf |publisher=Northern Illinois University |access-date=July 5, 2019 |archive-date=July 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731043832/https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/91307/1/showing%20its%20flag_19836-Article%20Text-46661-1-10-20130711.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> consenting to limited involvement.<ref name="agoncillo508">{{Cite book|last=Agoncillo|first=Teodoro|title=History of the Filipino People|publisher=C & E Publishing|year=1990|edition=8th|location=Quezon City}}</ref> He then asked Congress to approve sending a [[combat engineer]] unit. Despite opposition, the proposal was approved and Philippine troops were involved from the middle of 1966 as the Philippines Civic Action Group (PHILCAG). PHILCAG grew to a strength of some 1,600 troops in 1968. Between 1966 and 1970 over 10,000 Filipino soldiers served in Vietnam, mainly involved in civilian infrastructure projects.<ref name="Celoza1997">{{cite book |last=Celoza |first=Albert F. |url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=Sp3U1oCNKlgC}} |title=Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines: The Political Economy of Authoritarianism |date=1997 |publisher=[[Praeger Publishers]] |isbn=978-0-275-94137-6 |access-date=November 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107161415/https://books.google.com/books?id=Sp3U1oCNKlgC&pg=PA57 |archive-date=November 7, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|[{{Google books|plainurl=y|id=Sp3U1oCNKlgC}} 102–103]}}<ref>Lieutenant General Larsen, Stanley Robert (1985) [http://www.history.army.mil/books/Vietnam/allied/ch03.htm "Chapter III: The Philippines"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080105005608/http://www.history.army.mil/books/Vietnam/allied/ch03.htm |date=January 5, 2008}} in ''Allied Participation in Vietnam'', US Department of the Army</ref>