Winning the sprint and the marathon : changes for the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).

The study will first review the security environment, analysing the geostrategic circumstances and their continuing relevance today. It will then describe the "new" environment and the specific threat of transnational terrorism. The roles played by the SAF, especially its strategy of joint...

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Main Author: Lim, Nicholas Chye Khiang.
Other Authors: Loo, Bernard Fook Weng
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Published: 2008
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-143132020-11-01T08:21:24Z Winning the sprint and the marathon : changes for the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). Lim, Nicholas Chye Khiang. Loo, Bernard Fook Weng S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science The study will first review the security environment, analysing the geostrategic circumstances and their continuing relevance today. It will then describe the "new" environment and the specific threat of transnational terrorism. The roles played by the SAF, especially its strategy of joint warfare, would then be discussed and rationalized. As the SAF is well placed in its fight against the conventional state threat, it is in its new roles that the SAF would now have to concomitantly revert. Using Clausewitz's Trinity of War, the study will analyze and propose changes for the SAF. Principally, the recommendations include the segregation of the two types of capability skill sets, which would be accorded the same level of prioritization. In the conventional warfighting arena, it is surmised that the SAF is primed to handle the challenges. Master of Science (Strategic Studies) 2008-11-13T09:17:10Z 2008-11-13T09:17:10Z 2006 2006 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14313 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf
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Lim, Nicholas Chye Khiang.
Winning the sprint and the marathon : changes for the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).
description The study will first review the security environment, analysing the geostrategic circumstances and their continuing relevance today. It will then describe the "new" environment and the specific threat of transnational terrorism. The roles played by the SAF, especially its strategy of joint warfare, would then be discussed and rationalized. As the SAF is well placed in its fight against the conventional state threat, it is in its new roles that the SAF would now have to concomitantly revert. Using Clausewitz's Trinity of War, the study will analyze and propose changes for the SAF. Principally, the recommendations include the segregation of the two types of capability skill sets, which would be accorded the same level of prioritization. In the conventional warfighting arena, it is surmised that the SAF is primed to handle the challenges.
author2 Loo, Bernard Fook Weng
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Lim, Nicholas Chye Khiang.
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author Lim, Nicholas Chye Khiang.
author_sort Lim, Nicholas Chye Khiang.
title Winning the sprint and the marathon : changes for the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).
title_short Winning the sprint and the marathon : changes for the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).
title_full Winning the sprint and the marathon : changes for the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).
title_fullStr Winning the sprint and the marathon : changes for the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).
title_full_unstemmed Winning the sprint and the marathon : changes for the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).
title_sort winning the sprint and the marathon : changes for the singapore armed forces (saf).
publishDate 2008
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