" The SAF is am armed force; it is not a civilian corporation. Its mission is to defeat its enemies, ruthlessly and completely. It is an instrument of controlled fury, designed to visit death and destruction on its foes...soldiers must have steel in their souls...must learn in war to kill and not flinch, to destroy and not to feel pity, to be a flaming sword in the righteous cause of national survival."
-Brig.-Gen Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore Armed Forces Chief of Staff [General Staff], at his sending-off parade on retirement from active military service, Khatib Camp, 19 September 1984
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Debunks the view of a nice, sweet nation we are, doesn't it? But being a defensive army, that's what we are. We might not win through sheer number, but we are sure to give them substantial damages; to cut off a leg from their square table.