ASSESSMENT OF INTANGIBLE HUMAN ELEMENTS OF SOLDIERS IN PREPAREDNESS TOWARDS MILITARY COMBAT READINESS

The hybrid synchronization of tangible military logistics provides the formulae for military preparedness in anticipation of combat duties common for militaries globally. The military combat readiness is formulated with a mathematical formula for the tangible military logistics requirements at all times. Situational Forces Scoring (SFS) provides the quantitative numerical measurement for military combat readiness preparedness in anticipation for operational duties in logistics and manpower planning. In addition to identifying and measuring the intangible human components of soldiers in the areas of morale, quality of life, and military psychological aspects, this study will consists of four antecedents for each domain. This quantitative research was conducted with 2466 military personnels working in operational areas throughout Malaysia. PLS-SEM provided the statistical validation of the model with the data (n = 2466). The outcomes of the statistical analysis shows that the R2 value of 62.9% of intangible human elements is explained by exogenous variables of morale, quality of life, and psychological. Results indicate that morale (β= 0.578) has the highest direct effect on the measure of combat readiness as compared to psychological (β= 0.171) and quality of life (β= 0.091). The morale variable of soldiers provides the platform for high performance in combat duties. The results of this research indicate that the morale of soldiers must be consistently reinforced so that individual soldiers provide the dimensions for collectively team performance in the Malaysian Armed Forces during combat duties. Efforts to effectively improve quality of life and psychological problems should also be emphasized with greater emphasis on improving overall unseen combat readiness. Many defence and security agencies will benefit from this research as they can adopt this research model for their operational prepardness and readiness in their organizations.