MALAYSIAN MISSILE RETALIATION POLICY TO COUNTER SINGAPORE PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE POLICY

Singapore seems to be very proud of its pre-emptive strike policy where the country will strike its neighboring countries with the objective to disable those countries to strike Singapore. This is very typical policy for a small country that is over-confident of its military capability compared to its neighboring bigger countries, but anyway has been successfully demonstrated by Israel against its neighbors at many occasions. Malaysia particularly is concerned about this policy, and Malaysia should implement its own policy to counter this policy that will discourage Singapore to execute any pre-emptive strike on Malaysia.

The total area of Singapore is only 720kmsq or 0.2% of Malaysian total land area. It is a very small country, compared to Malaysia, only slightly bigger than some city council areas in Malaysia. This very significant difference between Malaysia and Singapore should serve as a guide for Malaysia to implement a specific anti-Singapore pre-emptive policy.

Not only size does matter, the physical geography matters too. Singapore is not only too small when compared to Malaysia, but it is just a city on a small island, while Malaysia consist of 2 great lands, one is a continental peninsular and another one is great part of Borneo. Not only that, Malaysia have mountains & hills and rivers & lake, while Singapore has none.

Population density matters too. The population density of Singapore, which is almost 8000/kmsq is too big when compared to the Malaysian population density of less than 100/kmsq.

Natural vegetation matters too. Wild tropical rain forest still cover most of Malaysian lands, while such forest has gone extinct in Singapore.

Economic distribution matters too. There are factories, ports, agricultural centers and business centers distributed all over Malaysia, while in Singapore, due to its size limitation, all those economy is concentrated.

With such facts, if Singapore launch 100 conventional missiles towards Malaysia, its effect would be so much less destructive when compared to if Malaysia launch 100 missiles into the cramped area of Singapore.

Therefore, all Malaysia need to discourage Singapore to execute any pre-emptive strike on Malaysia is to implement a missile retaliation policy, because such a very small country like Singapore will not survive such policy.

These missiles can be of short range (1000km or less) and medium range (between 1000 and 3000km) of surface-to-surface, air-to-surface and also sea-to-surface. The short range ones can be launched from central peninsular Malaysia, southern Sarawak and ships operating between those 2 areas, while the medium range ones can be launched from the northern peninsular Malaysia, northern Sabah and ships operating between those 2 areas. They can be imported and self-developed.

To increase the survivability of those surface-to-surface missiles from being striked before they can be launched, the missiles can be secured in bunkers and operated from mobile launch vehicles. To increase the effectiveness and security of these missiles, they may not only launched from multiple sites, but they can also be operated in both modes of central and independent launch.

Mobile surface-to-surface short range missiles.

The air-to-surface missiles can be of that launched from combat aircrafts operating nearer to, but at a significant distance from Singapore, and also of ALCMs (air launch cruise missiles), launched from bigger airborne platforms farther to the north away and safer from Singapore.

ALCM (Air launch cruise missile) launched from large platforms.

So do the sea-to-surface missiles which can be launch from multiple seaborne platforms at multiple distance from Singapore, and those missiles too include SLCMs (sea launch cruise missiles).

SLCM (sea launch cruise missile).

Malaysian missile retaliation policy will encourage the development cruise missile activities in Malaysia. There will be Malaysians who will propose various short range and medium range cruise missiles, and will provide a pool of "cruise missile DNAs" for Malaysian strategic cruise missile development program. Therefore this policy will even encourage a missile industry in Malaysia, not only to serve this policy, but also for export market - becoming a New Military Industry for Malaysia.

A cruise missile concept to be considered is "DCM" or drone cruise missile. This missile is actually a drone that function as a missile. It will take off like a typical drone without missile launch facility, but will reach its target as a missile does. Several units of it may operate like "a squadron" with one as the "squadron leader". Few such squadrons would be enough to "punch Singapore to a knockout."

Referring to the cost and complexity, developing and operating missiles including cruise missiles is much lower cost and  less complicated than developing and operating MRCAs (multi-role combat aircrafts) or air-superiority fighters.

Malaysia is proposed to consider this defense policy which specifies that Malaysia will retaliate a Singaporean pre-emptive strike by automatically launch a significant number of missiles towards Singapore.

Of course Singapore will implement a missile protection system to counter the Malaysian missile retaliation policy, but the objective of this policy, that is to discourage the pre-emptive strike by Singapore would be achieved anyway - Singapore will not launch any pre-emptive strike on Malaysia because it fears the Malaysian missile retaliation policy.