ABSTRACT
Candidate and President Corazon Aquino's RP-USA military relations policy was based on support of a triad of military treaties with the former colonial power. Especially after EDSA, attention increasingly focused on her preferences concerning just one of those three legs, namely, the future of the Military Bases Agreement after 1991. If one keeps in mind that Aquino implemented her stated preferences regarding RP-USA military relations (see Table 4.3), then her "open-options" stance regarding what she would do in 1990 and 1991 is an incomplete and unsatisfactory metaphor for the full range of her broader military cooperation policy with the U.S.
