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VOLUME 17/ Issue 4
01-Jun-2009
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The Largest Circulated Defence Magazine in Asia-Pacific
Asian Military Review is an ABC audited publication that is read and discussed by most of the key decision makers and advisors to militaries in Asia-Pacific. Since 1993, it has become widely recognised as an authoritative provider of unbiased and objective information to its Asian readership comprising of military, government, industry and academia.
Editorial content comprises capability analysis, special reports and relevant news coverage, from the region, making Asian Military Review the preferred professional reading of those working in Asian military and defence organisations. AMR's network of experienced defence journalists and military writers, provide content that is designed to provide insights and opinions not commonly found in other defence journals.
AMR provides more than 180,000 military professionals, via over 21,000 copies every issue, in the region with information, opinion and facts that allow them to track and understand defence developments worldwide, in terms of the equipment, training, organisation and doctrine issues critical to the creation and sustainment of effective military forces. The magazine is a proven source by which Asian military professionals are kept up to date on issues that affect the militaries’ ability to effect national and international defence and security issues. |
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The Modernization of Indonesia Armed Forces
With a manpower level of around 410,000, the Indonesian military occupies a unique place in the country's hierarchy, one that harks back to its role in the struggle for independence from Dutch colonial masters. For its population, Indonesia's military is not big. However, its influence stretches far beyond its size, to touch most aspects of Indonesian life. The primary problem for this Southeast Asian nation is not the size of its military, but rather a lack of funding. Indonesia knows it needs to spend more on its national defence, but herein lies the problem ' there is little cash available |
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Singapore's Blue Water aspirations
In February, the Republic of Singapore Navy announced its decision to send one 'Endurance' class vessel to join Combined Task Force 151, a coalition of nations tasked with anti-piracy patrols around the Gulf of Aden. This deployment illustrates that, in less than forty years since its formal establishment as an independent arm of the Republic of Singapore armed forces, the RSN has become a potent blue-water force able to project power far beyond its home shores |
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