Singapore

Market Overview. As a city-state with limited land area, population, and defensible space, Singapore has been forced to adopt a "quality over quantity" approach to its defense problems. A "porcupine" strategy whereby an enemy must be willing to absorb exorbitantly high losses at the risk of being outlasted by Singapore defenders has overtaken the former "poisonous shrimp" approach, which emphasized a defensive posture. The latter approach stipulated that the island-state's forces...