Tentera UAE memuatkan kenderaan tentera mereka
dengan roket semasa manuver dengan tentera Perancis di padang pasir Abu Dhabi (AFP Photo/Karim Sahib – think IN
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JohnnyAdam – Emiriah
Arab Bersatu merancang untuk memperkenalkan perkhidmatan tentera wajib bagi
orang-orang muda, yang mungkin 3 kali ganda potensi ketenteraan dalam kes
konflik serantau.
Semua
dewasa UAE lelaki di bawah 30 tidak lama lagi akan diwajibkan untuk berkhidmat
dalam tentera, Perdana Menteri UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum telah
diumumkan.
Menurut
undang-undang draf, mereka yang tidak mempunyai pendidikan sekolah tinggi akan
mempunyai untuk berkhidmat selama 2 tahun, manakala mereka yang mempunyai
diploma akan dikehendaki berkhidmat 9 bulan. Bagi wanita perkhidmatan tentera
akan pilihan. Pegawai belum diumumkan apabila betul-betul sistem itu akan
dilaksanakan.
“Melindungi
negara dan memelihara kemerdekaan dan kedaulatan adalah kewajipan negara suci
dan undang-undang baru akan dilaksanakan,” kata Sheikh Mohammed pada akaun
Twitternya. “Keuntungan kami adalah garis merah yang perlu dilindungi.”
Pada
masa ini saiz angkatan tentera negara dianggarkan pada 51,000, menurut Institut
Antarabangsa London bagi Kajian Strategik.
Pengerahan
boleh membawa tentera simpanan dua kali saiz itu, yang akan terdiri daripada
anggota tentera bersara dan graduan program khidmat negara, Riad Kahwaji, ketua
eksekutif INEGMA Timur Tengah pemikir kepada Reuters.
“Kita
perlu ingat UAE telah mendapatkan banyak sistem ketenteraan, dan mereka telah
bergantung kepada rekrut asing bagi membantu manusia banyak ini,” kata Kahwaji.
UAE menikmati hubungan yang baik dengan kuasa-kuasa Barat dan banyak bergantung
kepada bekalan senjata mereka.
“Kini
dengan pengerahan yang UAE akan mula mempunyai lebih . . . sara diri dalam
mengendalikan banyak sistem,” katanya.
UAE to introduce compulsory military service
The
United Arab Emirates is planning to introduce mandatory military service for
young men, which might triple its military potential in case of a regional
conflict.
All
adult Emirati males under 30 will soon be obliged to serve in the military, the
prime minister of UAE Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has announced.
According
to the draft law, those without high school education will have to serve for
two years, while those with a diploma will be required to serve 9 months. For
women military service will be optional. Officials have not yet announced when
exactly the system will be implemented.
“Protecting
the nation and preserving its independence and sovereignty is a sacred national
duty and the new law will be implemented on all,” Sheikh Mohammed said on his
Twitter account. “Our gains are a red line that must be protected.”
Currently
the size of the country’s armed forces is estimated at 51,000, according to
London’s International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Conscription
could bring a reserve army twice that size, which will consist of retired
soldiers and national service program graduates, Riad Kahwaji, chief executive
of the INEGMA Middle East think tank told Reuters.
“We have
to remember the UAE has been procuring a lot of military systems, and they've
been relying on foreign recruits to help man a lot of these,” Kahwaji said. The
UAE enjoys good relations with the Western powers and relies heavily on their
weapon supplies.
“Now
with the conscription the UAE will start having more . . . self-sufficiency in
manning a lot of the systems,” he added.
Juruterbang tentera Arab Bersatu menimbulkan di
hadapan helikopter AH- 64D Apache (United Arab Emirates army pilots pose in
front of the AH-64D Apache helicopter (Reuters/Nikhil Monteiro – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
UAE akan
menjadi negara anggota Majlis Kerjasama Teluk ke-2 untuk memperkenalkan
perkhidmatan tentera wajib sejak tahun lepas. Pada bulan November, kerajaan
Qatar meluluskan rang undang-undang memperkenalkan perkhidmatan tentera lama 3
atau 4 bulan untuk lelaki di antara umur 18 dan 35 antaranya. Kuwait juga telah
memikirkan pengembalian semula seperti amalan.
Pada
bulan Disember, United Arab Emirates dan jiran-jiran yang Teluk Arab Saudi,
Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain dan Qatar, telah bersetuju untuk mewujudkan satu arahan
ketenteraan bersama dan untuk membawa perpaduan di kalangan raja-raja Teluk dan
memaparkan kuasa di rantau ini.
Menteri
Saudi Pengawal Kebangsaan Putera Miteb Bin Abdullah berkata bahawa akan ada “perintah
yang bersatu -kira 100,000 ahli” dengan GCC Perintah Tentera Bersama yang
berpangkalan di Riyadh. Dalam pada itu, Akademi Teluk Strategik dan Keselamatan
Kajian akan diwujudkan di Emiriah Arab Bersatu.
Untuk
mengekalkan kestabilan dan kemakmuran di negara dan rantau ini, yang UAE perlu" berjaga-jaga sepanjang masa, “ahli sains politik UAE Abdulkhaleq Abdulla
kepada Reuters.
“Dengan
seperti ini keputusan hari ini, saya berfikir negara ini berkata ‘Kami mahu
mene-ruskan kestabilan dan kemakmuran tetapi kami juga dilengkapi dengan baik untuk
seba-rang kemungkinan,” kata Abdulla.
UAE will
become the second Gulf Cooperation Council nation to introduce compulsory
military service over the last year. In November the Qatari government approved
a bill introducing 3 or 4 months’ long military service for men between the
ages of 18 and 35. Kuwait too has been mulling reinstating such a practice.
In
December, United Arab Emirates and its Gulf neighbors Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,
Oman, Bahrain and Qatar, agreed to create a joint military command and to bring
unity among the Gulf’s monarchs and display power in the region.
Saudi
Minister of the National Guard Prince Miteb Bin Abdullah said that there will
be “a unified command of around 100,000 members” with GCC Joint Military
Command based in Riyadh. In the meantime, a Gulf Academy for Strategic and
Security Studies will be created in the United Arab Emirates.
To
preserve its stability and prosperity in the country and the region, the UAE
needs to “be on guard all the time,” Emirati political scientist Abdulkhaleq
Abdulla told Reuters.
“With
this kind of decision today, I think the country is saying 'We want to continue
with the stability and prosperity but we are also well-equipped for any
eventuality',” Abdulla said.
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