Defence Professionals, 6 Jan 2009, MG Ng Chee Khern
Singapore is a small country. We are 42 km East to West, 21 km North to South. We have no natural resources. Without the luxury of space and resources, the RSAF has lived by two key principles throughout our history. The first principle is to be always open to international cooperation and collaboration. Through collaboration, we make ourselves useful to others and create partners, and we create mutual benefits for ourselves and our partners. The second principle is a never-ceasing drive to do our utmost to optimise, to be efficient and effective, to seek out force multipliers and to increase the speed of our OODA loop. In essence, we have always sought to make the most of what we have. The two principles are complementary. We are more useful to others if we ourselves are a capable air force which others find credible to work with for mutual benefits, and we become better the more we work with others. Collaboration between air forces is similar to economics. The more open we are, the more we are likely to benefit from each other in the long term.
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