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Navy Officers’ Advanced School (NAS)


Navy Officers’ Advanced School (NAS)

Navy Advanced School (NAS) is one of the three Schools in the SAF Advanced Schools (SAS). The school conducts the Naval Advanced Officer Course (NAOC), Mine Hunting Officer Course (MHOC), Naval Warfare Officer Course (NWOC) and Command Preparatory Programme (CPP).

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Command Preparation Programme (CPP)

Recommended Pre-reading List

  1. “SAFTI Leadership Journal - A Journal on SAF Leadership by Centre for Leadership Development”
  2. “The SAF Core Value - A Handbook on SAF Core Values”
  3. “Military Discipline - A handbook on Military Discipline in the SAF”
  4. “Command at Sea”, James Stavridis and William P. Mack, 1999. [RSIS Library]
  5. “Naval Leadership: Voices of Experience”, Karel Montor, 1998. [Hard copy]
  6. “It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy”, D. Michael Abrashoff, 2002. [Hard copy][Audiobook]
  7. “Lead On! : A Practical Approach to Leadership”, Dave Oliver Jr., 1992. [Hard copy][E-Book]
  8. “Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box”, Arbinger Institute, 2000. [Hard copy][E-Book]
  9. "On Command" in Pointer Supplement, Ng Chee Khern, 2009." [E-copy]

Others:

  • “It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership”, Colin Powell, 2012. [E-book]
  • “It's Our Ship: The No-Nonsense Guide to Leadership”, Michael Abrashoff, 2008. [E-book]
  • “A Junior CO's Reflection”
  • Speech by Dr Goh Keng Swee, DPM and MoD at the SAF Promotion Ceremony on 30 Nov 1973

Naval Warfare Officer's Course (NWOC)

Recommended Pre-reading list

  1. “Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat”, Wayne Hughes, 2000.
  2. “The International Law of the Sea”, Vol.1, Introductory Manual, E.D. Brown, 1994[Hard copy]
  3. “Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century”, Geoffrey Till, 2013. [Hard copy][E-Book]
  4. “Operations Officer's Guide”, John Callaway, 2012.

Others:

  • “One Man's View of the World”, Lee Kuan Yew, 2013. [Hard copy]
  • “The Leader, The Teacher & You: Leadership Through the Third Generation”, Lim Siong Guan and Joanne H. Lim, 2013. [Hard copy][E-Book]

Naval Advanced Officer’s Course (NAOC)

Recommended Pre-reading List

  1. “Maritime Air Operations”, Ben Colston Laite, 1991. [Hard copy]
  2. “Naval Electronic Warfare”, David G. Kiely, 1988. [Hard copy]
  3. “Battle at Sea: From Man of War to Submarine”, John Keagan, 1993. [Hard copy]
  4. “Fleet Tactics: Theory and Practice”, Wayne P. Hughes, 1986.
  5. “The International Law of the Sea”, Vol.1, Introductory Manual, E.D. Brown, 1994. [Hard copy]
  6. “Submarines”, John B. Hervey, 1994. [Hard copy]

Others:

  • “Watch Officers' Guide: A Handbook for all Deck Watch Officers”, James Stavridis, 1999. [E-book]
  • “The Self-Aware Leader: A Proven Model for Reinventing Yourself”, Daniel Gallagher and Joseph Costal, 2012. [E-Book]
  • “Naval Shiphandler's Guide”, James Alden Barber, 2005. [Hard copy]
  • “The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King: The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea”, Walter R. Borneman, 2012. [Hard copy]
  • “Pedra Branca: The Road to the World Court”, S. Jayakumar and Tommy Koh, 2009. [Hard copy]
  • “Between Two Oceans: A Military History of Singapore from 1275 to 1971”, Malcolm H. Murfett, 2011. [Hard copy, E-Book]

Naval Junior Officers' Course (NJOC)

Recommended Pre-reading List

  1. “Weather Book”, Eric Sloane, 2005. [Hard copy]
  2. “Naval Shiphandling”, Russell S. Crenshaw, 1975
  3. “Admiralty Manual of Seamanship”, Vol. 3, Admiralty, 1964. [Hard copy]
  4. “Admiralty Manual of Seamanship”, Vol. 1 & 2, Admiralty, 1995. [Hard copy]
  5. “Naval Ceremonies, Customs and Traditions”, William P. Mack and Royal W. Connell, 2004. [Hard copy]

MIDS Wing

Recommended Pre-reading List

  1. “It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy”, D. Michael Abrashoff, 2002. [Hard copy]
  2. “The Art of Thinking Clearly”, Rolf Dobelli, 2014. [NLB]
  3. “Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions”, John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber, 2005. [Hard copy]
  4. “Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box”, Arbinger Institute, 2000. [Hard copy][E-Book]
  5. “Influencer: The Power to Change Anything”, Kerry Patterson, 2008. [NLB]