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Malaysian Defence

Waiting for UNIFIL, again

Its confirmed, the Malaysian contingent for the Lebanon will leave for the Middle East country on Nov 5. And it appears that the Malaysian contingent will fly there via Hercules transport planes. As I mentioned in my earlier posts, it is probably wiser if we flew on chartered 747s but […]

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Malaysian Armed Forces

Operators Or Good Old Fashioned Infantry

SHAH ALAM: The Malaysian battalion set to go to Lebanon under the UN banner will comprise 160 special forces operators and 200 soldiers for administrative and logistics purposes. I can understand the need for SF to be in midst things but Unifil mission profile does not actually support the need […]

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Malaysian Armed Forces

Told You So…

If only someone was smart enough to issue out notices on the paper or tv that no one should be worried about low flying planes… news story from Bernama is self-explanatory… FOREIGN AIRCRAFT INVOLVED IN FPDA EXERCISE — NAJIB PEKAN, Sept 23 (Bernama) — Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib […]

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Asean and Malaysia

Thai Coup

I am not paranoid but the coup in Thai had me wondering. What if the new military govt decided to attack Malaysia due to their long-standing believe that we have been supporting the Islamic militants in southern Thailand? As the UK and Aussie air forces, here due to the Ex-Starfish […]

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Malaysian Armed Forces

Like an Ostrich

Malaysia seems to host a lot of foreign forces lately. Currently, UK and Aussie air forces are in country for the Starfish exercise under the Five Power Defence Arrangement as I mentioned in my earlier posts (Sentru in Subang)Unfortunately, as other joint training exercise like with the US (Carat), we […]

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Malaysian Defence

Waiting for UNIFIL, finally

We finally got the green light to go to Lebanon. Pak Lah in New York for UN General Assembly said the world body have agreed for the deployment of 360 troops, short of 700 that we had earlier proposed.Any number is good enough I believe. I just hope MINDEF will […]

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Malaysian Defence

Sentry in Subang

Its ExStarfish. Part of the Five Power Defence Agreement. Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Uk. The Sentry, believed to be from UK, is part of the exercise. Have anyone heard of PR? Thanks to Sager for the update! If you like this post, buy me an espresso. Paypal Payment

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Malaysian Defence

E-3 Sentry AWACS in Subang

As I was driving yesterday about noon, guess what I saw banking right out off Subang.An E-3 Sentry Awacs. I cannot make out whether it was US, NATO or the Saudi version. Since Nato and Saudi AWACS seldom fly out of their regions (NATO planes do deploy to Afgan) I […]

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Malaysian Defence

Waiting for UNIFIL Part 3

Kofi Annan mentioned Malaysia joining UNIFIL in Jordan several days ago. Was it a slip of the tongue or they have decided to allow Malaysian troops in Unifil? We are waiting with bated breath If you like this post, buy me an espresso. Paypal Payment

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Lessons

Lessons From Lebanon (1)

I have been thinking that it is really not important for us to decide who won the recent war in Lebanon.What is more important that we find out what went wrong over there so we avoid the mistakes that had been done. This is not the final list. As more […]