Acquisition of high-tech gear has gone hand in hand with expertise enchancment within the SAF. After a long time of working second-hand submarines, for instance, the Republic of Singapore Navy has launched its state-of-the-art Invincible-class submarines, manned by extremely skilled crews.
The primary two submarines had been commissioned in September — the identical month that Singapore’s first absolutely digitalised armoured preventing automobile, the Hunter, debuted in Exercise Wallaby in Australia. The annual train is the SAF’s largest unilateral abroad train.
2. HOW THEY MASTER DIPLOMACY
For city-states all through historical past, diplomacy has additionally been key to survival and advancing nationwide pursuits. Venice, for instance, had an in depth community of diplomats.
“Venetians had been able to be despatched into the world. They knew languages. They had been curious. And so they travelled throughout the Mediterranean space, northern Europe, Africa … and the Far East,” mentioned writer Alberto Toso Fei, an skilled in Venice’s historical past.
“Greater than this, … they determined to discovered the diplomatic put up — in all places. This can be a Venetian invention.”
In 1965, when Singapore turned impartial, it additionally swiftly established its first diplomatic missions: in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and New York Metropolis. As we speak, the city-state maintains over 50 abroad missions.
