DANA R. DILLON quoted Tim Huxley as follows in his "Contemporary
Security Challenges in Southeast Asia" published in the Spring 1997
issue of Parameters.
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/97spring/dillon.htm
"In insular Southeast Asia the principal source of friction is the
historical animosity between Malaysia and Singapore. Singapore has
been portrayed as "a Chinese nut in a Malay nutcracker,"[34] but
this metaphor belies the actual situation. The Singapore Armed
Forces (SAF) are specifically designed, equipped, and trained to
conduct military operations on the Malay peninsula. Should
widespread internal instability in Indonesia or Malaysia result in
violence against ethnic Chinese, threaten Singapore directly or
indirectly, or threaten the island state's extensive economic
investment in those countries, the SAF is clearly capable of
protecting Singapore's interests however it chooses to define
them.[35] A Singaporean invasion of any ASEAN country would most
likely result in the complete collapse of ASEAN. In fact, the
possible repercussions are so devastating that one observer has called Singapore's strategy "a sort
of regional 'doomsday machine.'"[36]
34. Tim Huxley, "Singapore and Malaysia: A Precarious Balance,"
Pacific Review, 4 (No. 3, 1991), p. 210.
35. Dillon, p. 58.
36. Huxley, Pacific Review, p.
210."
Does anybody have the original text where Tim Huxley called
Singapore's strategy a sort of regional doomsday machine?
Cheers,
Sunho
