Population doesn't reflect the size of the army, unless you want that army to wield stick and stone. you need to equipped the soldiers with weapons and equipment and this require money. if you have populations of 5 millions but you only have enough weapons and equipments to equip 500 men, would you say you have 5 million men army?



Singapore knew this since ages ago. i believe that they already device a contingency plan in case this happen.

This post has been edited by Fadly: Mar 9 2011, 02:33 PM

Singapore can only sustain 3 month of major military operation against Malaysia since they depend mostly on citizen army for the bulk of their forces. More then that, they'll risk collapsing the economy. Singapore military strategy depend heavily ond blitzkrieg tactic.

Blitzkrieg is not your classic attrition war. You don't try to destroy the enemy forces. Blitzkrieg is a maneuver war. you avoid the enemy forces and go after the economic and industrial target. If i'm a Singaporean army general, i will avoid jungle warfare as much as possible and concentrate on assaulting the population and industrial centre.