Philippine – American Negotiations on Military Bases between 1965 and 1969

United States of America sought after World War II, to take foreign policy aimed  to encircle the Soviet force outside her borders, and directing a series of blows to this power, depending on quite a few military bases.
The Philippines was among  countries those occupied,  after gaining independence in 1946 ,her  place in American foreign policy, due  to the importance of us military bases in Clark Field and Subic Gulf in the strategic policy of the United States in the Western Pacific, which included defeating Soviet military initiatives in Southeast Asia, these bases secured advanced defensive line to  the United States of America,  for supply  and transfer its forces  in East and South Asia, and meet  the Soviet threat.
Consequently United States of America in the period between 1965 and 1969 entered in negotiations with the Philippine Government to resolve controversial issues in the 1947  general agreement of bases,  to produce better results for  surviving  these  bases  as long as possible, to confront the political developments in Asia in  that period, which had a direct impact on American interests there, and restraining Soviet role in that continent.

The negotiations proved success of American diplomacy in achieving objectives set in advance, and the final agreement not ensures only that the reducing the duration of the convention from 99 to 25 years, ensuring the preserving the essence of the convention included a strong policy pouring in favor of United States of America, and this was confirmed by President Nixon's announcement of the 1969 policy.