Full Description
The book The APPSMO Advantage: Strategic Opportunities is on the Asia Pacific Programme for Senior Military Officers (APPSMO). APPSMO is a series of conferences organised by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and its predecessor, the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, for senior military officers of Singapore and other countries of the Asia Pacific, consisting of an intensive week-long programme of lectures, forums, and discussion groups. Very senior speakers share their views on strategic matters, and defence and military issues. The programme brings together key people whose fingers are on the trigger to enable them to communicate with each other directly and informally, thereby enhancing networking among their defence forces, while benefitting from contacts and exchanges between the scholarly and policy communities.
Contents
Preface (Ong Keng Yong); Foreword (S R Nathan); Introduction (Barry Desker); Commentary on Ministerial Keynote Addresses (Ong Wei Chong); Reflections on the APPSMO Experience (Ang Cheng Guan, Mushahid Ali, Joseph Liow, Melvyn Ong, Kumar Ramakrishna, Shen Dingli, Steve Smith & Yao Yunzhu); Selected APPSMO Distinguished Lectures (John Allen, Iwan Azis, Eliot Cohen, Peter Ho, Bilahari Kausikan, Khong Yuen Foong, Kishore Mahbubani, Wayne Mapp, Arun Prakash, Steve Smith, William Stevenson, Wang Gungwu & Purnomo Yusgiantoro); Biographies of Editors and Contributors; Appendix; Index;
