Deputy Defence Minister Liew Chin Tong says the ministry is undergoing changes listed in a White Paper that will fundamentally alter its operations and procurement. — Picture by Mukhriz Hazim
“If you look back at under the previous government, quite a number of these big-ticket defence projects were vendor-driven, often against the end-user’s advice, and sometimes against our strategic interests,” Liew said. “But if you take away military camps from urban centres and put them in far-flung places, your ability to respond to any given scenario quickly and effectively will be degraded, and your reaction time will be compromised,” Liew said.
“Once you have the revelations from the GPFIC, you have no choice but to deal with the issues and past legacies, which will then allow you to hopefully chart the future through the DWP,” he said. The ministry’s allocation is a year-on-year decline of 10 per cent, and the overall reduction in defence spending means that its expenditure has declined to its lowest level as a share of the government budget since the 1980’s.
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