Originally posted by Orcishwarrior:
speaking about Israel and singapore defense relationship,do u
remember a strait times news article on Singapore-Israel Satelite
co-operation if i didnt recall wrongly singapore is said to invest
S$1 billion into the satelite research while Israel will provide
the technology the article was printed in yr 2000
.we have the reason to believe that military satelite is long being
up in space without one noticing its present maybe it is launched
under one of IAF satelite
as a cover up.
Well, the Americans and the Russians will know. They track every
low orbiting satellites (as part of their ABM defence). Both
countries have the capability to knock out any low-orbiting
satellites with their anti-satellite weapons.
Singapore really cover stuff well to be kept really confidential
but lack the depth of transparent over such things althru each
armed force reserve the right not to announce to the public,it
seems singapore just didnt even touch the borderline of the
transparent
depth at least MY somehow done it.
Well in my book, there are two kinds of defence:
1. psychological defence. Making a lot of noise about what your
capabilities are. Buy this and that (not necessary have to be 100%
proficient in using them) so that the "enemies" will think twice or
even three times before attacking. Good but sometimes doesn't work
well, eg. Sadam and the current Iraq regime.
2. substance defence. Making sure that your "enemies" know that you
have substance but can never quite the depth of your substance. In
this kind of defence, one may acquire significant capabilities but
never made it "quite" public. The "enemies" are constanlty trying
to assess how strong you are but could never quite tell. If they
choose to attack, the "enemies" will suffer considerable amount of
damage to make any attack not worthwhile. This also achieve the
above defence.
I guess Singapore chose to adopt the latter kind of defence whereas
some of our neighours choose the former one. 
