The Role of SAF today
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What is the role of SAF today?
As an effective deterrent? To defend S'pore against external threat? If yes, what threats are we facing today? Is SAF effective in dealing with the current threats?
For nation-building? For social cohesion? Is it bonding our citizens?
2 years of our time plus ICT... Is our training effective? Is SAF obsolete in certain practices or doctrines or hardware?
Just treat this thread as a QC check on the SAF... Any discussion on the present ROLE and EFFECTIVENESS of the SAF welcome here. Own time own target, carry on....
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Hey, which is your emphasis - the SAF itself, or NS in general? ~lol~
The SAF's role is to ensure the protection of Singapore, period. Up to you on how to intrepret this - whether in terms of operational readiness,
or meeting existing safety & security challenges, or as a model for nation building, or strategically participating in UN peacekeeping missions, et al.
If you can, try to attend one of them OCS commissioning parades, or at least read (online/print) transcripts of the speeches given. Propagandic as it may sound, they do serve as serious reminders for the newly-appointed leaders on what's expected of them.
Google around for, in particular, Wong Kan Seng's addresses; I find him to be the most fluid of speechmakers on this topic. -
Sorry if my thread is not clear... talking about the SAF generally, of which NS is a part of...Originally posted by Moxie:Hey, which is your emphasis - the SAF itself, or NS in general? ~lol~
The SAF's role is to ensure the protection of Singapore, period. Up to you on how to intrepret this - whether in terms of operational readiness,
or meeting existing safety & security challenges, or as a model for nation building, or strategically participating in UN peacekeeping missions, et al.
If you can, try to attend one of them OCS commissioning parades, or at least read (online/print) transcripts of the speeches given. Propagandic as it may sound, they do serve as serious reminders for the newly-appointed leaders on what's expected of them.
Google around for, in particular, Wong Kan Seng's addresses; I find him to be the most fluid of speechmakers on this topic.
I'm not really searching for the official stand on SAF, rather more interested in forumnites' opinions on whether the role of SAF has changed and whether it is ready to face the challenges of the future... -
the role of SAF is to show the world, especially our neighbouring countries, that we have a strong armed forces in which most male citizens above 18 years of age is operational ready to defend the land we grew up on.
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a big company dats provide jobs n even foods for many pples
without saf, lots of pples will become jobless -
making boys man.
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yah....very the true...SAF is SFI's big customer leh...remember those hard-to-bite biscuits aka dogbiscuits ? SFI one. remember those vacuumed packed chicken rice ? SFI one....and lots more lah.Originally posted by pangkee:a big company dats provide jobs n even foods for many pples
without saf, lots of pples will become jobless