This piece of peesai is only 700 sq km. No long coastline. Why need so much defense spending? Even if an ICBM with a nuclear warhead were to drop in Batam, this peesai will similarly suffer the effect and damages done. So, what's the use of spending excessively to acquire those sophisticated weaponry? Just basically equipped to serve as a deterrence will be sufficient.
In 1942, to escape from the marauding Japanese invaders, the Commander of the AIF, Major General Gordon Bennett stole a sampan at gunpoint and fled from Spore to Sumatra... If he can do it, then we can also do it too..
