ABSTRACT
The current literature does little justice to the small navies of South-east Asia, a region which is of huge maritime geostrategic importance with potential security ramifications for wider Asian and global maritime security. South-east Asia is also a region in which a serious and significant build-up of sophisticated naval capabilities is taking place. This chapter therefore attempts to address, at least partially, the dearth of studies concerning the small navies in South-east Asia, using the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) as a case study.
