The Common Struggle: Philippines
An English-language sheet headed PHILIPPINES quotes President Ferdinand E. Marcos on stopping 'communist aggression in Vietnam' and shows Philippine military medical personnel operating alongside a Vietnamese doctor, with a second photograph of a surgeon treating a wounded Vietnamese patient. A named head of state supplies the endorsement and the photographs show a third country taking part, so the sheet presents the war as a shared allied effort.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) psychological-operations output, as placed by the National Archives series; no issuing body printed on the sheet
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Health
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO). National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-011-24.
Text on the object
PHILIPPINES "While supporting initiatives toward peace, we regard it as essential that the relentless pressure of communist aggression in Vietnam be stopped. The necessity for stopping this aggression is obvious. If we sat by, complacently awaiting the uncertain arrival of peace, we might wake up to find that we had nothing left to negotiate about." — Pres. Ferdinand E. MARCOS Member of Philippine surgical team (right) assists a Vietnamese doctor in operation. Philippine surgeon operates on leg of Vietnamese wounded by Viet Cong bullet.
