Defence Forces: Commission report to recommend major changes including larger navy, more cyber specialists and Air Corps rebrand
Defence Forces: Commission report to recommend major changes including larger navy, more cyber specialists and Air Corps rebrand
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Wonder if they’d pay for these cyber specialists or just pin it to civil service scales and then be surprised when they can’t find anyone competent to do the jobs like they do at the moment.
And then pay a consultancy firm to do the thing they weren’t willing to pay a permanent staff member for.
Works like a well oiled machine!
Glad to see an increase in cyber security specialists. Aggression can come from not only states but private groups and interrupt anything from electrical and water utilities, finance, healthcare, government, business, education, anything really. It’s crucial when our economy is reliant on all the above and so many tech firms and their IP is present in Ireland. Took the HSE ages to recover, if they have even recovered fully yet.
Let’s just invade somewhere for the laugh.
I looks promising, but I’m sure the Defence Forces themselves are sceptical. There have been multiple re-organisations of the Defence Forces in just the past few years.
Each time the defence forces undergoes massive structural changes while promises of improvements are dangled in front of them. Every time so far the government lost interest shortly after and the defence forces are worse off from all the disruption caused by major overhauls that were abandoned before being completed.
U.S. combat Marine here. You’re going to see in the near future less and less battles/wars fought on actual battlefields and more and more in cyberspace. Well placed malware and viruses can do just as much (if not more) damage to a nation than an expeditionary force can do at a fraction of the cost financially without the risk of lives to the attackers.
Most countries are always budgeting and fighting the “last war”.
Edit: Working on becoming Irish citizen.
All recommendations are incredibly sensible and should be implemented, especially ones around cybersecurity, a Ranger Wing base at the Naval Base and a senior NCO represented at the highest levels.
One that stands out is the possible mention of a Strategic Airlift capability for the (rebranded) Air Force.
It’s one that could have real benefits not just for DF personnel but for citizens at home and abroad.
Meeting those climate goals
Larger navy they must be having a laugh, out of the 9 ships that are already in the fleet how many are tied up because they have no crew ? Conditions and pay have to be addressed
They should give Fincantieri a call
“We would like an order of two FREMMs with a side of OPV”
The lack of resources spent on the maintenance of our defence infrastructure is going to hit us hard somewhere down the line.
Just like how the poor management of our healthcare services knocked us out when COVID hit.
Hopefully a lot more cooperation with other EU militaries.
There needs to be more incentive to join the ARW. At the moment word on the street is that the unit only has a strength of about 50. You get a 10k pay boost but your rank is frozen and so by joining, though you might be called elite, you’re potentially missing out on a lot of money. I’m no expert, but maybe we’d be better off slashing the size of our standing army, making the ARW direct entry and the main component of our military, and for the rest raising a sort of militia a la Switzerland. Of course I’m just posing questions here, I could be completely in the wrong and I’m sure someone will tell me why.