Military Conscription Essay

After reading the supporting article, Revisiting Military Conscription (aka National Service) in Singapore by Bernard F W Loo), I understand that our National Service (NS) is an essential military force that helps us to maintain a well-balance relationship with Malaysia. In order to ensure that Singapore receive sufficient supply of water from Malaysia, Singapore have to put up a threat by showing a strong military force which of course have to begin with enforcing a compulsory NS. In the year 2011, Singapore had recruited a number of 21,000 soldiers while Malaysia’s soldiers have significantly noted to be weakened through the years, this is pointed out by a Lieutenant-General Muhammad Effendi Mustaffa saying that “Gone are the days when they

In a recent news, the Minister of People‘s Welfare of Indonesia, Agung Lakson, had accused Singaporeans of being childish towards the issue of haze. He even said that they will not consider putting off the flame without more than a million dollar from our Singapore government. The strength of our military force shows no threat to them and it seem like money is the only thing that can save us from trouble then I suppose we should save all our military expenses and use it to resolve the

First of all, working in the society is like participating in a race, and by having a late start, it can actually put you into a terrible position regardless of how fast you are able to run. In average, most of the females and males graduate from university at the age of 21 to 22 and 24 to 26 respectively. In this 2 to 5 years gap, many men felt that they have loss plenty of opportunities and income compared to the women, some of the minorities men even engage into part-time study during their NS in order to shorten the time that they have ‘wasted’.

Secondly, after their 2 years of serving, all NS men still have to return back to camp for a 14 to 21 days reservist every year. With the foreigners offering a lower demand of salary, longer working hours and no reservist obligation, how are the local NS men going to get a job? Due to this reason, many of the employers prefer employing foreign workers to local NS men. Although a few policies have been implemented so to ensure Singaporeans have a priority over the foreigners in terms of job opportunities, many companies can still get around the rule and insist on hiring a foreigner. Therefore, I am sure that the NS men will still struggle in finding a job as the policies are only hacking the leaves instead of digging the root of