KUALA LUMPUR: Just when Malaysian Defence thought that he had ran out of materials from the New Arms for the Malaysian Armed Forces’, he stumbled across this news item entitled “Soldier Wants A Bigger Bang“. Initially Malaysian Defence thought the story was just to justify the issuance of the M4 […]
PETALING JAYA: I sincerely hope Jen Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Zainal (pic) first act on assuming the Armed Forces chief post is to rescind the previous suggestion by his predecessor to use the term “Chief of Defence Forces” of his position. CDF remained in the purview of the official media […]
Like the Malaysian Army, I am embarrassed to update the previous “Border Incident”. The Bernama report below explained everything. It is fortunate that my former colleagues misidentified the four soldiers battalion. The Royal Malay Regiment has had a long and proud tradition. Its image is sullied by the actions of […]
It is quite disheartening reading the news of the incident at Malaysian-Thai border where four soldiers were injured after two grenades were thrown/fired at them. Mercifully they were only slightly injured in the twin blasts. Most of the papers including Bernama, the national news agency, identified them as soldiers from […]
PETALING JAYA: I don’t think he will answer, not very soon, I believe. I was informed via email from a reputable source that the current Panglima Angkatan Tentera Malaysia (Malaysian Armed Forces Chief) preferred to be called (in English) as the Defence Forces Chief, to better reflect the three services. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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