What is Military professionalism in the context of the Singapore Arm Forces?

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Military Professionalism in Singapore

Military professionalism can be looked in terms of the meaning of the terms military and professionalism . A profession is a function group with highly specialized characteristics . These include expertise responsibility and corporateness

1 . Expertise

A professional is an expert holding specialized knowledge and skill in a significant field that affects human life . This expertise is acquired over time by prolonged education and experience . This lays the standards of professional competence . It separates professionals from laymen such

standards are very universal in any profession Professional knowledge is intellectual in nature and can be preserved in writing . Educational institutions are the source of transmission of professional knowledge . This knowledge is maintained through the constant interaction between the academic and the practical world

2 . Responsibility

Professionalism requires a great degree of responsibility . A professional is a practicing expert working in various contexts to offer services to the community . A professional works for the society Social responsibility makes a professional different form any other expert with intellectual skills . He /she is not motivated by the financial aspect of the job but his /her will to work with honesty to the society . Professionalism is therefore guided by a code of ethics

3 . Corporateness

Professionals have a great degree of unity and consciousness as a group The training they undergo is necessary to develop professional ability common bond of work and sharing of social responsibility

Professional competence helps to establish professional responsibility The ability to have special expertise and acceptance of special responsibility becomes a determination of professional status

Military as a profession ought to possess the basic qualities and characteristics of any profession . Military professionalism in Singapore can therefore be analysed along these lines of a profession However , various issues that affect Singapore have called for instant practice of military professionalism

There are constant security concerns over terrorist related attacks piracy and even spill over effect from neighbouring unstable countries like Indonesia . There are changes in the economic set up of the country and different in population demographics . All these call for SAF 's transformation . SAF therefore has to introduce technology to transform into a more adaptable force capable of undertaking various operations

This means that military professionalism in SAF is mandatory . It includes developing new expertise to be able to deal with a more complex and ever changing social economic and political environment . The increased insistence of non-conventional operations reflects a leap towards a more organised force . This is in anticipation of any future changes

SAF was created within a short span of 40 years and has developed since then both in it 's systems and structures to become a well respected military force . The growth of Singapore as a nation had been reflected also in the growth of the SAF as a military force SAF has since become highly adaptive , innovative and able to cope with uncertainty and change . These are the qualities needed of modern military force

Military professionalism therefore can be looked...