SINGAPORE: Singapore will keep its mandatory military service because it cannot depend on help from others in an uncertain world, its defence minister said today.
Ng Eng Hen said conscription was crucial, especially for smaller countries like Singapore, and those who had abolished it ended up regretting their decision.
One such country is Lithuania, which scrapped mandatory military service after the end of the Cold War, the minister said.
“But instead of stability came the annexation of Crimea and troubles in the Ukraine barely two decades later,” Ng said in a speech to army recruits on the 50th anniversary of National Service (NS).
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Source: theSun
