Joint Service Ethos

Joint warfare is heavily adopted in current complex environment. It requires a close inter-services cooperation while joint service amalgamates all the tri-service into one organisation with no service delineation. In modern warfare, wars are commonly won when the coordinated forces on land, in the air, and at sea are operating effectively toward a common goal. Joint service is not feasible because modern battlefield requires the tri-service expertise, ethos and functional structure to cultivate servicemen to discharge their responsibilities in their specialised function in order for the commander to assemble into integrated forces with effective combat competencies to achieve mission success.

Service Expertise
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Negligent discharge of weapons were on the rise in Afghanistan due to poor command emphasis on firearms safety that consequentially allow soldiers to develop bad habits in handling of weapons. The incident of Somalia Affair, a Somali teenager scavenged for food in Canadian barrack was shot and brutally beaten to death by two soldiers, revealed the lack of training in ethical and moral education, rampant indiscipline, and poor leadership management that existed and ignored by military leaders over a period of time . Tri-service does contribute an important role in fostering respective service ethos and culture to display its distinct functions and it establishes a degree of responsibility to achieve organisational objectives. The morale of the soldiers that carried out the act with negativities clearly exhibit the dysfunctional effect of the joint service in …show more content…
This resulted in cutback of appointments, integrated training, operations, logistic and administrative support under a single chain of command, and achieved in overhead cost saving by eliminating duplicate of services and facilities, and reduce lead time in arranging and resolving logistics and administrative matters. The divisional structure in CAF allows the Commanding Officer of a division to oversee all of its unit functions and able to make decisive decision. It also offers soldiers with opportunities to discover new skills beyond their area of expertise . This less hierarchical structure, organises along business of tactical grouping of functional units in a division, places less emphasis on core competencies that might result in situation where soldiers are not well versed in dealing with unfamiliar equipment in a new environment and it may have weaken the operational effectiveness, and the erosion of military ethos due to mismatch of service