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Friday, April 08, 2016

Spending kept up with eye on future: Ng Eng Hen

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Note that S$14b is budgeted for defence this year for Singapore....

Examples of what weapons our defence budget is being spent on:
They include a new armoured vehicle for combat support troops, eight new littoral mission vessels and two new submarines, and the move to finalise new helicopters for the Republic of Singapore Air Force.

Now that war at the battlefield is slowly migrating to cyberspace, we are also beefing up our cyber defence capabilities. Recall that some of our govt websites were hacked into by professional hackers some months back.....

In this last sentence of the article are three reasons given by our Defence Minister for the continued high spending on defence in Singapore:
"But I think for Singapore, a little red dot in the middle of a region of extremist threats, rising nationalism and strategic rivalry, we should guard against the worst and prepare ahead."

Qn: Examine the extent to which expenditure on arms and the armed forces is justified in the modern world. (Cam. 2014)