Peripheral to Norm? The Expeditionary Role of the Third Generation Singapore Armed Forces

Ong, Weichong

doi:10.1080/14702436.2011.630182

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“…The SAF acknowledges that its overseas military deployments earn “the friendship and respect of our key partners” and contributes to “deterrence by profiling and validating our Army’s capabilities and operational readiness” (Lee, 2015, p. 28). These missions “show-case” the SAF’s expeditionary capabilities in a “low-profile manner,” underscoring “a visible ‘big-stick’” the city-state can wield whenever its national interests are threatened (Ong, 2011, p. 545). Another display of the SAF’s swagger was its participation in the search for AirAsia flight QZ8501—a Boeing 737-Max airliner that crashed into the Java Sea en route from Surabaya to Singapore in 2014.…”

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Reflecting on America’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan: The View From Southeast Asia

Lee

2022

Armed Forces & Society

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This essay reflects on the broad contours of the war in Afghanistan from Southeast Asia’s perspective. While the United States’ withdrawal from Kabul was calamitous, the pessimism about America’s role in Southeast Asia has been overstated. The United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan was largely inconsequential for the region. Southeast Asian states deftly mixed their support for America’s campaign in Afghanistan and the broader war on terror without being seen as too sympathetic, including, in some instances, condemnation of America’s attacks on Islam. Regional governments balanced their domestic political interests with their foreign policy objectives. The abrupt Afghan withdrawal may instead have positive outcomes, as the United States boosted its courtship with countries of Southeast Asia and the broader Indo-Pacific region through new security arrangements such as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) and the Australian, U.K., and U.S. trilateral pact (AUKUS).

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Reflecting on America’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan: The View From Southeast Asia

Lee

2022

Armed Forces & Society

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Military force development in New Zealand and Singapore: realising different influences on small state military capability

Bennett¹

2023

Political Science

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Dylematy bezpieczeństwa militarnego państw azjatyckich. Wewnętrzne uwarunkowania sekurytyzacji

Fijałkowski¹,

Jarząbek²

2018

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Peripheral to Norm? The Expeditionary Role of the Third Generation Singapore Armed Forces

Cited by 3 publications

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Reflecting on America’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan: The View From Southeast Asia

Reflecting on America’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan: The View From Southeast Asia

Military force development in New Zealand and Singapore: realising different influences on small state military capability

Dylematy bezpieczeństwa militarnego państw azjatyckich. Wewnętrzne uwarunkowania sekurytyzacji

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