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In this essay, the author highlights that while civilian leadership may help to drive top-down military innovation in peacetime, a civil-military relationship characterised by directive civilian control breeds a culture of deference and thus negatively affects a military's spontaneity in adapting...

Sun Tzu and Clausewitz are both known to be most recognised and proficient writers on the subject of war and strategies. Although they wrote in different times and were from different backgrounds, their philosophies on war and strategy are still proven to be extremely helpful and effective in cur...

The acquisition of submarines by so many Southeast Asian countries represents a sudden proliferation of a new capability throughout the region. fuelling this dynamic is a lack of trust and transparency. As Southeast Asian countries that possess submarines continue to cooperate on different naval ...

During the Second World War (WWII ), many nations from all over the world were divided into two major alliances – Germany, Japan and Italy forming the Axis Powers and the Allied forces led by the ‘Big Three’, i.e. Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States. Firstly, this essay will ana...

An Employers' Guide - This handbook will help employers better understand our National Service policies and training requirements which may have an impact on their business.

The robotics revolution offers new ways of warfighting through co-operative robotics including swarm and multi-agent systems resulting in swarm warfare. The essence of swarm warfare combines the highly decentralised nature of melee combat with the mobility of manoeuvre warfare. Underlying the abi...

With the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) investing heavily in integrated strike and Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) capabilities, intelligence analysts are now faced with the need to produce ever-more precise intelligence in the face of information overload—a delug...