Collection: Professional Readings

¿́¿Avolio approaches the concept of leadership as a system, not only as a process or a person. His framework is based on what he defines as the full range of leadership: people, timing, resources, the context of interaction, and the expected results in performance and motivation.¿́¿ -- SAF Profes...

¿́¿Is medical ethics in times of armed conflict identical to medical ethics in times of peace, as the World Medical Association declares? In Bioethics and Armed Conflict, the first comprehensive study of medical ethics in conventional, unconventional, and low-intensity war, Michael Gross examines...

This is a collection of high quality papers on strategy from the times of Machiavelli to the present nuclear age. The reader can focus on any era of his choice since the various essays stand alone with related papers adjacent to each other. This book provides a comprehensive account of major deve...

¿́¿This useful book is about the legal rules that should be known and incorporated into the military decision-making process by all officers holding command responsibility. It is written in language understandable to all and sheds light on the many laws of armed conflict without becoming too tech...

This book analyses the factors that led to Singapore's strategic outlook, and the defence policies that have led to its impressive military capability. The author also explains the role and structure of the SAF including its training, procurement and logistics systems. He assesses key components ...

¿́¿What makes for innovations in war-making? The answers of this careful study, based primarily on American military experiences this century, run refreshingly against intuition: innovation seems easier in peacetime than war, for the fog of the latter covers all; it is no harder during periods of...

The late Professor Wong Lin Ken in a seminal address to the Command and Staff College on 23 November 1978 argued that "the fall of Singapore was more than a military defeat; it was a benchmark, signifying the end of an era, the visible death throes of Pax Britannica". The essays in this POINTER S...