POINTER Magazine - On Staff Work
POINTER Magazine - On Staff Work
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The RSAF has traditionally focused on training our people to be good operators. But not enough has been done to prepare our people for staff work. This is all the more peculiar given that staff colleges started off teaching staff work and only evolved into staff and command colleges later. We need to properly teach staff work. And we should start by being clear what a staff officer is. Two things I would like to highlight. First, although “staff officer” in the technical sense refers to the junior officers in HQ appointments, I use the term more generally to refer to anyone who performs a staff function to a higher authority. A Branch Head is a staff officer to the Department Head, a Department Head or a Commander is a staff officer to the Chief, and I am a staff officer to the Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and CDF. This makes all of us a staff officer.
POINTER Magazine Description:
Publisher: POINTER
Category: Politics
Language: English
Frequency: 9 Issues/Year
POINTER is the official journal of the Singapore Armed Forces. It is a non-profit, quarterly publication that is circulated to more than 10,000 MINDEF/SAF officers and various foreign military and defence institutions. POINTER aims to engage, educate and promote professional reading among SAF officers, and encourage them to think about, debate and discuss professional military issues.
POINTER’s staple of publications includes journals, monographs and supplements. We leverage on the power of vast domestic and international network of ideas spanning the military-academic-scientific-industrial nexus for quality articles. SAF officers and both local and international defence experts and eminent thinkers of diverse fields are welcome to contribute articles for POINTER publication.
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