U must be some kind of delusional idiot. Lets say for one minute the SAF is not incompetent in itself, and are able and willing to defend singapore, how than can they successfully do this with idiots scholars in charge? History has shown time after time that a small army led by a great leader can defeat a much larger army led by an incompetent general. U can have the bravest soldiers, the best weapons, and all the ammo in the world, but when your general is ordering an unsupported frontal assault into prepared and fortified enemy positions, u will lose. Of all the generals we have, not one is a graduate from a real world prestigious military school like Sandhurst or West Point. They are all graduates of Harvard, Cambridge, etc with business, engineering and public admin degrees. These people are not serious military men, they are just bureaucrats and politicians parking themselves in the SAF so they can be called "General" when they run for office. Like it legitimisers their qualifications. How do you win a war with these assholes running the army? I know enough SAF scholars giving me enough stupid orders in the army to know these guys are sinkie killers. They will get sinkies killed in large numbers in war time.
I am not delusional.
You have a point re: trained at Sandhurst and West Point (only at Officer Cadet level).
May be not in the past 2 decades, but during my time, there was a schoolmate of mine, who was a few years my senior (Jerry Soh), who was trained at Sandhurst, who probably retired as a Colonel (OK, you have a point, not a general).
I assume that the generals in the SAF, including those Commandos who are BG's, are well trained in tactics and at Command and Staff College.
Although I am unable to vouch that the former CDS, Desmond Kuek, is or is not a competent general, he was the top officer at the Battalion Tactics Course.
With respect, even I who as a NSF, only trained up to SATO level, and thus may be supposedly "competent" up to Company level or Battalion Staff Officer level, WILL NOT order an unsupported frontal assault into (at) prepared and fortified enemy positions. There is no question, that any fortified enemy positions need to be "softened" by aerial and field level artillery bombardment. Or may be, I am outdated.
There are enough non-Scholar generals in the SAF.