Lieutenant-General Sir Lionel Vivian Bond, KBE, CB (16 June 1884 – 4 October 1961) was a senior officer in the British Army.

In 1922, he published a literary attack on Captain Liddell Hart's new theories on tank warfare, stigmatising them as "flapdoodle of the most misleading kind".

Bond was aware that his predecessor had made an assessment on the war situation in Malaya, and was convinced with his findings that the Japanese would attempt to seize Singapore by attacking Malaya from the north through Siam.

With only a small number of British force in his command, he knew he could not undertake the defence of the entire Malayan Peninsula.

Bond decided on a strategy of close defence of Southern Johore, and the Singapore island.