Major-General (MG) Neo Kian Hong, currently Chief of Army,
will take over from Lieutenant-General (LG) Desmond Kuek Bak Chye
as Chief of Defence Force on 31 Mar 2010.
Brigadier-General (BG) Chan Chun Sing, currently Chief of
Staff - Joint Staff, will assume the appointment of Chief of Army
on 26 Mar 2010.
These changes are part of the continuing process of
leadership renewal in the Singapore Armed Forces
(SAF).
Oh man! What are the possible changes you guys can see?
LG Kuek took the step forward and brought the second generation
SAF into a 3G SAF. I wonder what the new CDF will bring to the
table.
My 2 cents worth, I think leadership should consists of
warriors, not scholars.
Between that Kuek guy and the incoming CDF, MG Neo is easily one
hundred, maybe one thousand times more garang and on-the-ground and
'army' than Kuek. You going on about what Kuek took the step
forward, blah blah and you wonder what the new CDF will bring to
the table, you definitely don't know a single thing about what's
happening in SAF. You must be either a pre-enlistee or someone
who doesn't need to serve like a foreigner or woman.
The scholars in the SAF are soldier-scholars, age old-concept
since the 1970s here and going even further back in other more
established militaries. The two concepts are not mutually
exclusive, unless of course, you have not met them.
Your 2 cents worth is typical unlearned chatter among people who
are detached from reality; and very detached from the core of the
action. Next time, go up to Chan Chun Sing and talk to
him.
btw, frankly among all the scholar high fliers, I'm least
impressed with Kuek. He's good, but his contemporaries are better.
What he is better than them at, is positioning himself.