Inderjit S, Hasan Al-Banna Mohamed, Kwong FW Jesscia Ong Hai Liaw, Abdul Rahman Abdul Razak Shaik, Safar Yaacob, Wong Wai Loong, Ummul Fahri Abdul Rauf, Siti Najwa
The dominant engagement and involvement of military forces are relevant to foresee the sovereignty of the country in encapsulating both internal and external threats lingering at all times. Different militaries globally have always concluded the different perspectives of understanding and theoretically defining combat readiness. Realistically combat readiness is subjected to their military doctrine, policies, and public communications in the preparedness of their military forces for combat duties. The Malaysian Armed Forces use the Situational Force Scoring (SFS) quantitative measurement of combat readiness of troops whereby numerical tangible scores are given in terms of percentages of logistics, and manpower requirements. Unfortunately, the soldiers in terms of individuals’ intangible human dimension factors are not quantified such as morale, quality of life, and military psychological factors which invariably are of utmost importance for the military prior to combat duties. This mix method research will relook at the current systematic framework model of combat readiness and propose a synchronized hybrid measurement of both tangible and intangible assessment for combat readiness model for the military which can be replicated and used by other security agencies which can adopt the same model for their operational preparedness such as the Royal Malaysian Police, Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency and other relevant security forces in Malaysia.