COMMENT As the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, GDAMS 3.0 (April 15, 2013) approaches, it is time for Malaysians to ask: Who are Malaysia's enemies and what appropriate weaponry do we need?

One would think this is the first question the Ministry of Defence should ask in the multi-billion decisions to procure armaments now that the arms merchants are here again for LIMA 2013. Yet our National Defence Policy has never even been properly debated in parliament.

Just a few months ago, the defence ministry would not have said that Malaysia's enemies were among the Suluks who have been coming back and forth between southern Philippines and Sabah all these years.