if i were given a chance to reform the country's military structure in terms of capabilities
1. setup perimeter defense system since we are island nation best way to go is setup early warning systems on the coastlines (radars) and at the same time it is complemented with SAM's,Anti Ship Missles(that can be fired close in the coastline), and Electronic Counter Measures System and regular backup interceptors for high altitude chase in implementing air sovereignty and Naval ships that will conduct sea patrols on the said territory
2. Upgrade current military hardware for all branches of the armed forces, will start with the Navy this where the heavy work should start, currently we have an ex-hamilton class in services which is also so the far the biggest ship of our navy.My approach will be create our own ships, if we can have at least 3 ships in every 4 years depending what kind? we will start from the smallest that would be the patrol boats but this ship should have the ablity to fire anti-ship missles and anti-air missles in securing the small islands and can be use for patrol recon of the area, then we bring in frigates this ships are essential in supporting the small patrol craft it provides essential presences in the area of responsibilty this kind of ships should be in divided into task group each frigate is complemented by each designated purpose (example: Group 1: anti-ship, anti-air, multi-porpuse frigate (combination of anti-ship and air) but not limited in carrying out anti submarine warfare), then for the destroyers pretty much the same concept for the frigates but this time all destroyers are equipped with anti submarine warfare as a standard issue then we put in the cruisers in this kind of class all of them are missle guided capable (capable of firing on air/land/sea based targets) and can serve as a flagship for the surface warship flotilla this approach is for making our presence felt.
3. Air force, needs to acquire interceptor type of planes that could carry out air patrols and sovereignty which will be closely intreacts with the radar systems we implemented, and for helicopters in services that would be spread out in 3 major branches accordingly for the Army use it should be a gunship type that is able to support close interdiction and has ability to fire anti-tank weapons their role is more support for the troops on the ground and while for the Navy it would be a multi purpose one, capable of carrying out maritime patrols and SAR operations but it's arraments are not limited into anti-ship and anti submarine warfare,and for the Airforce high altitude interceptors and Multi role fighter planes that can provide interdiction support both for army and Navy and a special division of bombers role carrying out bomding raids on the target with accuracy(long range bombers or multi-role), and recon group for carrying intelligence gathering and mapping and AWACS planes (similar but locally made) for quick swift of the area any unknown threats coming in our airspace.
4. Army needs to upgrade the hardware assets because with the ongoing technologies right now most of our mechanized weapons are obsolete, first changes to do is get new battle tanks (similar to Challenger Tanks of British Army or Abraham Tanks of US Army), what we have in service most of them are considered IFV (Infantry Fighthing Vechile) and for our mechanized division must be capable of launching guided missles for anti air/ship/submarine warfare and for the personnel use update the hardware issued on them like rifles, telecommunications link,intel gathering equipments.
5. Train more special forces for all major branches, the more special forces we have in hand at dissposal the better we can defend and at the same time employing strategic warfare
6. when all this changes takes place need to have our defense system as a doctrine to guide all our major branches whether waging a war on the enemy or standard patrolling of our air/land/sea sovereignty
