QUOTE(mercury8400 @ Apr 29 2011, 10:33 PM)
Actually I disagree with M'sia spending too much money on military hardware. I mean who are we going to war with? Singapore? Indonesia? We know we can't beat SG and we also know SG does not have the man power to occupy m'sia. Indonesia have their own problems and most definately do not have the resources to mobilise most of their military. So who excatly are we trying to scare off? I feel like its another reason for politician to dip their hands into the public pocket again....
QUOTE(DeFaeco @ Apr 29 2011, 11:31 PM)
That's because you only see the what's in the present. What about the future?
Keep in mind that merely 30 years ago we were at war with the communist party. 50 years ago we were at war with Indonesia. 70 years ago we were at war with Japan.
What about 30 years from now? Or 50? Or 70? Can you see the future and what's in store for us? Do we need to wait until foreign troops have landed on our soil before we start to arm ourselves?
It's not about being paranoid. It's about being ready. I'd rather we be over prepared rather then get caught with our pants down.
“The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
QUOTE(bai1101 @ Apr 30 2011, 09:44 AM)
ya military not only for war. With current situation our enemy is not only a country, it can be a group of advance terrorist with super technology.
Plus not only terrorist some global criminal is heavy equip also which might not something our police can handle and that time military have it role to prevent such people try to grow their power over our country.
And our country is surround by sea which some country might send their spy ship over here to check our military power if our military are not good enough to block or take them down, in near future when there start war we will be their 1st target to conquer. Since we not able to solve small matter how you got to facing a full ready force.
i believe we all know and heard these 2 proverbs... "SEDIAKAN PAYUNG SEBELUM HUJAN" and "BILA DAH TERHANTUK BARU NAK TERNGADAH"
it is not the issue of wasting the so called "rakyat money". actually what is "rakyat"? civillians? how about soldiers? their families member? civis who work inside the camp? civis who sweep the floor inside army camp? are those not "rakyat"? if not, what must we called them? barua? soldiers also pay taxes and same thing with the polices.
take example of land broker... a land owner wanted to sell his land for about 30k. when he went to see a land broker, that LB automatically raised the sum maybe up to 40 to 50k. "his upah" for sure. same with us... we do the same thing because we want to get extra bucks for what we are selling. no doubt about that. just go to 2 or 3 supermarkets and compare all the prices for a single item for example baby milk powder. and you will find lots and lots of different prices on one same item.
so to guarantee our security do we need our protectors to use just a "slingshot" or "arrow" or "stone" or "tipped wood"? tepuk dada tanyalah selera
QUOTE(atreyuangel @ Apr 30 2011, 05:42 PM)
try to take this into account,
the search and rescue of bukit antarabangsa landslide also mobilize the army.
the 2 MISC ship hijacked by Somali pirate also needed the army as the middleman between the company.
the escort of malaysian ship in Gulf of Aden to prevent any hijack attempt is also under the jurisdiction of the military.
the military spending is not just about war!

it is called MOOTW - Military Operation Other Than War