On 12 January 2015, General Surapun Wongthai, Commanding General of the National Defence Studies Institute, paid a courtesy call on H.E. Prasas Prasasvinitchai, Ambassador of Thailand to the Republic of the Philippines. Commanding General Wongthai was on his visit to promote Thailand-Philippines cooperation on defence studies with the Office of the Strategic Studies and Strategy Management (OSSSM), think tank unit of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.