Acquisition of high-tech tools 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 combating automobile, the Hunter, debuted in Train 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 intensive 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,” stated writer Alberto Toso Fei, an skilled in Venice’s historical past.
“Greater than this, … they determined to discovered the diplomatic publish — all over the place. It is a Venetian invention.”
In 1965, when Singapore grew to become unbiased, it additionally swiftly established its first diplomatic missions: in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and New York Metropolis. At the moment, the city-state maintains over 50 abroad missions.
