Is the army a threat? Do not forget in singkieland the army is an iron rice bowl for military scholars,,,and only the scholars get promoted,,,regulars who just sign on are of other ranks and even officers do not get promoted year on year. and the perks for the other ranks and non scholar officers are pretty average. and alot just sit there drink kopi etc,,,the rest of the rank and file are NSF...NSF just serve 2 years and FO,,,they dont even want to be there because in general,,a conscript army has low morale and in singkielands case its made worse by the scholar elite,,,I doubt the rank and file will shoot into the civilians,,,,and the rank and file might just even frag the scholar elites,,,I for one will definitely fragg kee chiu and pinky. The only scholar general that had the respect of his men was LHY,,,but he is gone and those officers that are like him etc are gone too,,should all be retired by now,,,,this is not like zimbabwe where the army etc has access to the economy and all the rank and file within the army benefit from the existing system. In singkieland only the scholars benefit.