Malaysian opinions on Defending the Lion City

last SG · 2004-09-26T14:40:40+00:00

The only people who can make all these funky statements about how Singapore cannot make it or its conscripts can't fight haven't fired a weapon or trained in...

sgdiehard SG

If Singapore loses, we will become Malaysian.
If Singapore wins, Malaysia will be renamed Singapore, capital city is Singapore city!
By then your boats probably just landed on a shore you thought was australia but the people there speak indonesian and Dr becomes Voodoo! Laughing

84mmrr SG

This book was listed as one of the recommended readings in the SAF Professional Reading Programme. The book review was written by Chan Kay Min and here is part of it:

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THE leaders of the Singapore Armed Forces bureaucrats or warriors? This is one poser raised by British political science academic Tim Huxley in Defending The Lion City -- The Armed Forces of Singapore.

The author doubts the effectiveness of SAF in time of war, being led by regular officers, many of whom, he says, are essentially bureaucrats. Huxley is also unsure of the motivation and quality of conscripts and national servicemen should they face a professional, albeit less well-equipped and less well-educated, adversary.

In his conclusion, Huxley warns against Singapore's overconfidence when comparing itself with its neighbours. "Singapore's defence planners need to beware of falling into the trap of overestimating their own armed forces' potential performance and under-estimating the capabilities of likely adversaries."

While Singapore has technological advantage over its neighbours, it is of less use in situations of protracted political or military provocation serious enough to trigger mobilisation but insufficient to justify deployment of forces.
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It is important for us to recognise our weakness while we work on our strength. The URL is as follows:

http://www.mindef.gov.sg/safti/saftilibrary/reading_programme/book_review__1-35_.html#5

sbst275 SG

Well, he stated something right. You need educated troops as well. As for Malaysia, the fact is that they are getting 2nd hand items and though it looks like a threat, it came too late by 20 years

SibeiSuayKia SG

ya our AMX is old..the gunboats some of it also quite old liaoz.

If we take over m'sia , then we can have sepang ..wahahah shiok!

sbst275 SG

Malaysia as well... Still get 2nd hand tanks now... MGB going to zhao already once the frigates comes

SibeiSuayKia SG

somehow 6 frigates i feel not enough wor..

storywolf SG

Our AMX is old.... M113 old .... , of course no need to urgently buy new one what !!! As the dumb author say, they all will all hide in jungle.

New tanks for what ? Shooting coconuts trees or durain trees, when all is inside jungle. Dumb !!! they can keep their jungle, they party in jungle, while enemy party in their city. They try to come out of jungle, will get shoot at by old amx-13s or old m113s , sorry they did not read up on the chapter that old still good enough to shoot anything clowns that walk out of the jungle.

Manager433 SG

Imagine this...you r a MY tankee in a PT90...........suddenly you saw 5 rounds of DU-SABOT hitting your turret at the same time....no time to shout for Ah-La.......you turn into dust after a good 20mins of burning......AMX 13 old ?

sbst275 SG

Dun forget of that new missile... Dun need tank warfare

paperchicken SG

..... or get eaten by anacondas or headhunters. Laughing

runningismylife SG

haha
den singapore can have one of the world tallest buildings. den perhaps we'll name it Singtel Towers or smth like that.

btw our confidence is probably smth good. while overcomplacency is frowned upon, we must have enough ego and confidence to trash the mats up north. no point in us thinking we'll gonna lose.

in any case, if malaysia wins. we'll become slaves to the malays.

if we wins. the chinese in malaysia gets liberated. we'll be the liberator.

and how is the pple in the kumpung going to kill us? we'll definitely provide them with more economical opportunities than selling 1 ramli burger for RM2.50 to feed their expanded family.

SibeiSuayKia SG

If M'sia was under the control of LKY, i think now even , Malaysia would even be more properous then Taiwan..

Imagine a Malaysian M'sia with

1. Highways and roads all lighted
2. Low Crime
3. Over hundreds of F-16
4. Racial Equality
5. GDP of over 500 billion USD

The problem is the govt is not adopting the right policies,
if i were Dr M or Dr Abdullah , i can make M'sia stronger economically and better off then SG in less then 20 years =D

Just need to pay me 20,000 SGD per month and i will implent drastic and far
changing policies.. =D

|-|05| SG

having all highways and roads lighted is a waste of money

Dr Who SG

Singapore is very lucky malaysia do not have leader like LKY.

If M'sia have leader with LKY's capabilities, Singapore is finished........kaput many years ago .

tripwire SG

if malaysia have a leader like LKY... singapore would still be a part of malaysia...

unfortunately.... for malaysia as well as singapore... they got racist pigs as leaders... Laughing

SibeiSuayKia SG

It's a well known fact , that during UMNO assemblies they do special thing for the malays..

Imagine lar, what if Indians come over to china and form a huge population in china, of course u would be scared the indians would benefit more then the chinese,so such measures are understandable..

So UMNO isn't really wrong, cause we must acknowledge that SG last time used to malay land..we're the real foreigners here, and the fact that we have armed forces , is to keep them from chasing us out (like what the pple wanted to chase jews outta israel)

We're the immigrants, they are the bumiputras..

So , please stop calling them racist..

specfore SG

While us Singaporeans and the Malaysians are bickering about each other's military capabilities and prowess... we got to watch out for our neighbours to the South.

Not that many decades ago, we faced the CONFRONTASI together. There are elements in our southern neighbour's armed forces/ government that still barbour this kind of political and territorial ambition. So long as Singapore and Malaysia achieve higher levels of prosperity compared to the south, there will always be this threat. Watch out.... they have many hundreds of thousands of troops to throw into a fight, plus many other ways to create a social problem (e.g. pushing refugees from their many troubled provinces to the shores of M'sia and S'pore).

Further to the south lies Australia. Not a direct threat as such, but a significant geo-political player. Australia has become very sensitive after 9-11 and after the Bali bombing. They may not hesitate to intervene in our region. While this is not a threat to S'pore/M'sia, it could de-stabilise the region by isolating the Islamic elements. Again, this could evolve into a military threat.

SibeiSuayKia SG

Wah Australia has to get thru indonesia first..

nope australia really doesn't have the capability to attack indonesia..

their missiles only give a range at most can strike jakarta..

Whether Indonesia can sustain the armed forces and incursions is another question..

No doubt they can gang up against us , or maybe even try to do so..
the economic implications will be drastic and they might lose riau and batam .

that means out of 17,000 islands..
they will get only.......16,998..
lol

Ok , time to import more chinese from china via FOB!

lai lai

sgdiehard SG

Your understanding of history and Singapore nation building is pathetic. Singapore is not what it is because of ONE LKY!! There were Goh Keng Swee, Toh Chin Chye, Rajarathnam, Osthman........and two and a half million singaporean (at that time). Mahathir was capable, but he was alone, and there was corruption, got Anwar, PAS......
Malaysia not only need LKY, it needs the team, the people and it must get rid of corruption......However, you are right, if M'sia have the capable people, life in Singapore would be much harder.

But, hello, IF only exists in fantasy and dream. If suddenly Singapore found crude in the southern islands, If Singapore discover limitless supplies of underground water....if....There is no If in real life.

Dream on...... Laughing

tripwire SG

mahatir was the only capable one... the rest of the entire malaysian populations are filled with idiots?? Laughing

to me... i would rather believe that mahatir was the ONLY incapable ones... rather then claim that HE ALONE is capable in malaysia.... Twisted Evil Wink

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