The Mumbai terrorist attacks reminds us again of the dangers of living in a world where terrible random things can happen. Of course, the attacks were of a scale that demonstrated careful planning and ruthless execution but it

The most useful and interesting experience in my 10 years or reservist as a citizen conscript in the Singapore Armed Forces was in knowing when I could kill someone legally.As part of my 10 years reservist cycle, my unit was placed under operational...

I have had the good fortune of being trained in firing both the M16 as well as the SAR21 assault rifles. My full-time national service and much of my reservist service was with the M16 and most of the ATP or trainfire programmes were conducted using...

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Singapore's demographics has totally changed. Less than 2/3 (66.67%) are Singaporeans. If you exclude newly minted Singapore Citizens, i.e. those who are naturalised from Permanent Resident Status, the figure would be even lower. Implications for...