{"id":905,"date":"2019-08-14T05:37:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T21:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymilitarytimes.com\/?p=905"},"modified":"2019-08-14T05:37:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T21:37:42","slug":"understand-armed-forces-role-in-preserving-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymilitarytimes.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/14\/understand-armed-forces-role-in-preserving-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Understand Armed Forces&#8217; Role in Preserving Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Deputy Defence Minister Liew Chin Tong\u00a0has urged members of the public to better understand the role played by the armed forces in preserving peace in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This came after the tycoon Koon Yew Yin suggested that armed forces personnel should replace foreign workers at Felda plantations as one of the means to address the country\u2019s bloated civil service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong>As you know, the armed forces personnel are doing nothing except eating and sleeping<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3314475734161595\" data-ad-slot=\"7610079946\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong>In fact, almost all of them have never fired a shot except at target practice. Some of them should replace the foreign workers in the Felda plantations<\/strong>,\u201d Koon wrote in his blog yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blog post has since been removed, and Koon had received brickbats on social media platforms and from lawmakers such as Pasir Mas MP Ahmad Fadhli Shaari for allegedly disparaging the armed forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liew said Koon\u2019s writings and others like it show a lack of understanding in the role of the armed forces as a nation\u2019s last resort \u2013 a point he had sought to address in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liewchintong.com\/2019\/07\/07\/armed-forces-the-last-resort\/\">own writings<\/a>\u00a0that was published last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo cite the Latin saying, \u2018<em>si vis pacem, parabellum<\/em>\u2019: If you want peace, then prepare for war. All parties should understand the concept of readiness of the armed forces as a last resort [\u2026]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI urge all Malaysians regardless of race or economic class, whether civilian or military, to strive to understand the role and sacrifices of the armed forces, and to be careful in issuing statements,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his column published in the&nbsp;<em>New Straits Times<\/em>&nbsp;last month, Liew had stressed that the primary role of the armed forces is to prepare for war, rather than being first responders in a disaster or \u201ccheap labour\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDeploying the military has a cost usually unseen by the public or even government leaders. When on operations, military personnel do not really have time to dedicate to training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeing constantly in ops and not having time to train means that they won\u2019t have the readiness needed in the event a military operation is called for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe nation, as well as the government, need to have clear strategic priorities and objectives for guiding the armed forces in their actions. As a society, we will also have to shed the idea that soldiers are an advanced version of cheap labour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe truth is, <strong>it is costly to train a soldier, and rightly so as wars are increasingly sophisticated and require highly skilled and smart soldiers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3314475734161595\" data-ad-slot=\"7610079946\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEach time we deploy them, we need to think of them as a special and highly skilled group and not as labourers at our free disposal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that on contrary to the popular belief that armed forces members have nothing to do, they in fact train daily, involve themselves in exercises and border patrols, going on operations, and provide military operations other than war (MOOTW) to civil authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_ <a href=\"https:\/\/m.malaysiakini.com\/news\/487824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Malaysiakini (opens in a new tab)\">Malaysiakini<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Defence Minister Liew Chin Tong\u00a0has urged members of the public to better understand the role played by the armed forces in preserving peace in the country. 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