NDUM: Charting A Professional Military Education

DEPUTY VICE CHANCELLORACADEMIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY OF MALAYSIA

NDUM: Charting AProfessional Military

Education

TENGKU MOHD T. SEMBOKB.Sc.(Brighton), MS(Iowa), PhD(Glasgow)

Army Institution

"The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions“

- Field Marshal Helmut Graf von Moltke (1800-1891)

Army Institution

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press.It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech.It is the soldier, not the organizer, Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag,And whose coffin is draped by the flag,

Who allows the protestor to burn the flag.” - Charles M. Province

Rethinking in Professional Military Education

Strategic Survey 2007: Uncertainty Scenario

The world in 2008 will be consumed by :• Politics of parochialism – sectarian rivalries and religious disputes . • Balance-of-power politics – alliance politics and arms races… role, status, alliance, deterrence, containment in the process of renegotiation.• “Non-polar world”: allows aggressive non-state actors to advance their particularist strategic struggles.• Managing nuclear proliferation and terrorism will remain the priorities. • Changes and uncertainty in world leadership.

20th Century: Fighting Known Enemy

Most of military training colleges concentrate on: Certain skills and knowledge required to fight known

enemy. Since the end of Cold War military education offered

scant preparation for postwar challenges. Operation for peace keeping, peacemaking,

post-conflict operation. Diplomatic negotiation and solution. Rebuilding of a nation after conflict. Disaster and calamity operations. Etc.

21st Century: Additional Military Competency

Responding to conventional military threats.Meeting “irregular” challenges, such as terrorism

and insurgent campaigns.Combating catastrophic dangers, such as WMD.Countering “disruptive threats” from military

competitors who develop unexpected capabilities.Peace keeping and peace making strategy: Politics of

sectarian and religious disputesDisaster and Calamity management and operation

due to Climate Changes: Knowledge management for Uncertainties in decision

making and management.Strategic contingency planning in non-polar world &

uncertainty in leaderships.

Reform Required to Manage Uncertainty

Thinking skills: problem solving, analysis, synthesis, planning, implementation, sustenance.

Language training to negotiation skills.Advance scientific and engineering training at

graduate and post graduate level.Military and International Laws.Geography, History, Politics, Culture and

Civilizations: ready for uncertainty any where any time.

Moral, ethical and legal acculturation, internalization & externalization: the art of war and the art of liberty, a gentleman and an officer, and also an intellectual.

21th Century expects every officer to operate in an increasingly complex environment.

Thinking skills are the best preparation for complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty – skills at graduate level.

Professional education requirement should be the same for active and reserve officers.

“Those who love peace must prepare for war.”: You want peace , you must be strong to defense yourself.

Reform Required to Manage Uncertainty

When knowledge and skills be taught?

Mould them when they are young – before 30 years old.

When education will have its greatest impact.

Early education will prepare them for life-long learning: for professional self study later in career.

“First love dies hard”: so does love for learning.

Mind run the body

"If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.“

-General George S. Patton

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it.

Where should they be taught?

NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY of

MALAYSIA(NDUM)

KEM SUNGAI BESIKUALA LUMPUR

NDUM MODEL: Professional Military Education & Training

WORLD OFUNCERTAINTIES AND

CONFLICTS

THINKING SKILLSLANGUAGE SKILLS

MORAL, ETHICS & LEGAL VALUES

KNOWLEDGE IN PHILOSOPHY ARTS, SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY

KNOWLEDGE IN GEO., HISTORY, POLITICS, & CULTURES

OUTSTANDING YOUNG MAN/LADY:

“MOULD WHEN THEY ARE YOUNG”

K-FORCE:Active

Services

M-PROFESSIONAL:

Reserve Unit

Scholarly Excellence and Militarily Competence:

Future Leaders

MILITARY COMPETENCY

LOCAL & GLOBAL LOCAL & GLOBAL PEACE & PROSPERITYPEACE & PROSPERITY

CADETS CIVILIANS

Friday, April 21, 202315

BACKGROUNDBACKGROUND

• NDUM is the successor institution that replaced Malaysian Armed Forces Academy (ATMA) which was established in 1995.

• ATMA conducted undergraduate twinning program with University Technology of Malaysia (UTM).

• MINDEF and Ministry of Higher Education agreed to upgrade ATMA to NDUM in November 2006.

• The establishment of the University is basically to meet the manpower needs of MINDEF in accordance with their mission to have a K-Force.


NDUM PHILOSOPHYNDUM PHILOSOPHY

The premier national institution dedicated to produce prominent intellectual leaders of character committed towards selfless service to the nation in

furtherance of national strategic interests.


MISSION STATEMENTMISSION STATEMENT

To educate and inspire future leaders in the pursuit and attainment of scholarly excellence and military competence.


SINERGY OF TWO MINISTRIESSINERGY OF TWO MINISTRIES

Ministry of Higher Education

Ministry of Defence

NDUM

FACULTIES & CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE

MILITARY TRAINING ACADEMY


OBJECTIVESOBJECTIVES

1. To provide a strong and balanced foundation of knowledge in Humanities, Management, Science and Technology as well as inculcate intellectual enterprise through teaching, learning, scholarly research and academic services of international standing.

2. To instill loyalty and patriotism for selfless service to the nation by providing knowledge, skills and competencies in military fundamentals.


3. To nurture socially responsible citizens with strong elements of spirituality, ethics and morality.

4. To develop future leaders who understand, appreciate and tolerate ethnic, cultural and religious diversity.



5. To equip future leaders with communication, languages and social skills.

6. To be the centre of excellence in the field of defense technology, economics and diplomacy, military affairs, as well as strategic and security studies.



NDUM MOTTONDUM MOTTO

DUTY, HONOUR and INTEGRITY


FACULTYFACULTY

NDUM have 3 faculties which are :1. The Faculty of Defence Engineering2. The Faculty of Defence Science & Technology3. The Faculty of Defence Management Studies

Centre:1. Centre of Defence Foundation Studies2. Military Defence Academy


CENTRES OF EXCELLENCECENTRES OF EXCELLENCE

1. Military Defence Academy

2. Center of Research Management and Graduate Studies

3. Centers of Excellence:• Institute of Strategic Studies (2007)• Institute of Military Medicine (2008)• Institute of Cyber Security (2009)• Institute of Mass Security and Safety (2010)


UNDERGRAGUATES UNDERGRAGUATES PROGRAMSPROGRAMS

1. Mechanical Engineering 2. Civil Engineering3. Electrical &Electronics Engineering (Power)4. Electrical &Electronics Engineering

(Communication)5. Computer Science (Intelligent Systems)6. Computer Science (Computer Systems

Security)7. Maritime Science & Technology8. Defence Human Resources Management9. Strategic Studies


CURICULUM CURICULUM COMPONENTCOMPONENT

• Military Training :20 % - 23 %

• Core Subjects :77 % - 80 %

• Industrial training :6 months

• Medium of Instruction :English

• Besides English language, students are required to take a foreign language of their choice. The languages offered are as follows:

-Mandarin-French-Russian -Japanese.


STUDENT STUDENT RECRUITMENTRECRUITMENT

•Open to all Malaysians between the ages of 17 – 20 years and also meet the military physical requirements.

•Fulfill the necessary academic requirements.

•Percentage of students :

80% cadets

20% civilians

•Civilian student are required to join the Reserve Officers Training Unit (ROTU)


COURSE DURATIONCOURSE DURATION

• FOUNDATION PROGRAMS

-1 year

• DEGREE PROGRAMS

-Engineering ( 4 years)

-Science & Technology (3 years)

-Management & Strategic Studies (3 years)


POST GRAGUATES POST GRAGUATES PROGRAMSPROGRAMS

MSc and PhD by Research:

1. Mechanical Engineering 2. Civil Engineering3. Electrical &Electronics

Engineering4. Computer Science5. Maritime Science &

Technology6. Defence Human Resources

Management7. Strategic Studies8. Defence Technology


Strategic Studies:

Laws of armed conflict Diplomacy and diplomatic practice Modern world history War and conflict Strategic Thinking International relations Foreign and defence policies Development of air power Issue in Malaysia security

POST GRAGUATES PROGRAMSPOST GRAGUATES PROGRAMS


Defence Resources Management:

Integrating military storage resources

Resource inventory and management Impact of military training on

resources Military culture and productivity Deployment Support Resources Family development and resource

management Mobilisation and deployment support Resilience in time of war Management of military land



Defence Technologies: Study on weapons Air defense missile systems Armoured fighting vehicles Soldier systems Anti armour missiles Artillery systems Unmanned Aerial vehicles Support/Attack helicopters Ammunition and Fuses Antennas, Masts and Towers Electronic warfare and jamming system Fire control and targeting Missiles, rocket and components Rugged computer, workstation and peripherals Military special purpose vehicles Invisible defense technology



Commissioning

Day

DUTY HONOUR INTEGRITYDUTY HONOUR INTEGRITY

Army Institution

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press.It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech.It is the soldier, not the organizer, Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag,And whose coffin is draped by the flag,

Who allows the protestor to burn the flag.” - Charles M. Province

Complete Victory & Happiness of Life

• If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.- Sun Tzu

• Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.-Norman Vincent Peale

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