Armed Forces and Societies: Implications for the SAF
CPT Ren, Jinfeng
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Abstract: The increasing professionalisation of the armed forces is a challenge to a nation’s defence strategies and the armed forces is forced to adapt to socio-political changes, resulting in increasing inter-penetrability of civilian and military spheres and cultures. As such, the military has to constantly review its structural relationship with society and strategic roles to anchor its legitimacy. Therefore, the SAF must continue to engage the larger civil society in defence policy issues, to encourage a greater sense of co-ownership and to sustain efforts in increasing the ‘social capital’ for the SAF. This essay examines the historical overview of the armed forces in societies, the decline of conscription army during the post-Cold War period and the dominant trend in modern armed forces, as they adapt their roles, to strengthen the linkage to and the legitimacy in the society. This essay also studies the implications of such trends for the SAF.
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Source:
Pointer Vol. 41, No. 1 2015
Series:
Pointer Article ; Vol. 41, No. 1
Language:
English
BRN:
129575