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constraints, awareness programmes, and central coordination.
Interviewees are mostly concerned about the government level mechanisms
that are being used to integrate military and civil in order to address maritime
drug trafficking. Political will, establishment of Presidential Task Force for drug
control and proposal for a Joint Task Force are some of the government-level
mechanisms those are mentioned by the interviewees.
With all these evidences and statements it is clear that military alone cannot
address the issue effectively and that there must be a coordinated mechanism
between civil and military with the intervention of the Government.
A. Allied Joint Doctrine for Civil-Military Cooperation

As one of the military facilitators, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) has identified a comprehensive approach for the civil military cooperation
and produced it as a doctrine. This permits the military to reach their desired
objectives by coordinating, harmonizing, synchronizing and de-conflicting
the activities with civil actors, consequently linking military manoeuvres with
political objectives (Lavallee, 2010). Initially, it has identified the evolving
strategic environment and incorporated threats and implications for military
objectives. Therefore, several principles for the Civil-Military cooperative
mechanism have been identified below.

• Understand the environment.

• Understand the objectives of the civil and military actors.
• Gain trust and respect.

• Integrated planning.
• Effective communication.

• Operate within the law.
B. The Coast Watch System of the Philippines

The Philippines, an archipelago state in South East Asia has been under
threat of many non-traditional security issues due to its vulnerable location.
In order to address the issue, the Philippine Government with the assistance
of Australia and US has initiated a new concept titled ‘Coast Watch System
(CWS)’ which was conceptualized in year 2006. Its vision is to promote
synergy and collaboration among actors while managing resources to achieve
common objective. With the idea of having effective and efficient counter
mechanisms, a few key functions such as developing a common operating
picture, collecting, consolidating and integrating all data relevant to maritime
security, providing real time information among all stake holders, were taken
care of by the National Defence Research Institute of the Philippines (Rabasa
and Chalk, 2012). The whole system was coordinated by the Maritime Research