This book aids any researcher, policymakers and military personnel in researching small states and militaries, European defence and security policy, as well as contemporary and emerging threats. This edited collection gathers academic commentators on Irish defence policy, military leaders from across the service components of the Irish Defence Forces and European defence experts to contribute to the first in-depth conversation and analysis on modern Irish defence and its application within the European Union. The aim of this edited book is to ascertain what capabilities are robust, which are lacking, what future threats need to be catered for, and what action is needed to ensure those threats will be addressed going forward. This book will explore emerging issues and applications of modern and contemporary threats within the context of Ireland, Europe and Western institutions. We have invited submissions from scholars, commentators, policymakers and military practitioners to evaluate the Irish Defence Forces and to illustrate the complexities facing small nations in formulating and resourcing defence and national security policy.
Introduction.- Theme One: Defence Forces Capabilities & The Threat
Environment.
Chapter
1. Ensuring the Jungle Doesnt Grow Back: The
Obligations Inherent to Irish Defence Policy.
Chapter
2. The GOCs
Perspective.
Chapter
3. A Critical Analysis of the Intellectual and
Communications Culture of the Irish Defence Forces at a time of
Emergent/Imminent Domestic and International Threats.- chapter
4. The Irish
Naval Service: The Burden of the Minimalist Approach.
Chapter
5. Small
Navies: Lessons for the Irish Naval Service.- Theme Two: The Reserve Defence
Forces.
Chapter 6.Revitalizing the Irish Army Reserve post-Commission on the
Defence Forces: Moving from the Single Force Concept to a Total Force
Policy.
Chapter
7. The Army Reserves The Force-multiplier for Irish
Defence.
Chapter
8. Irelands Naval Service Reserve An Analysis of Current
Capabilities and Role for the Future.- Theme Three: Peacekeeping Operations.
Chapter
9. Decolonisation, Conflict, and Independence: The Impact of History
on Irelands Approach to Peacekeeping.
Chapter
10. Irelands Largest
Peacekeeping Mission The Irish Defence Forces in UNIFIL.
Chapter
11.
Peacekeeping in the Digital Age: Future Threats and Capability Requirements.-
Theme Four: Cyber Security in the Digital Age.
Chapter
12. Irish Cyber
Security.
Chapter
13. Cyber resilience for Europes armed forces in the 21st
Century a German Perspective.
Chapter
14. The Irish Defence Forces in the
Drone Age.- Theme Five: Defence Forces Institutional Innovation and
Civil-Military Relations.
Chapter
15. The Defence Forces Research Technology
Initiative.
Chapter
16. Shared Norms but Policy Incoherence: Analysing the
Irish Defence Forces Marketplace Aspirations.
Chapter
17. Representation,
Negotiation, and Frustration. What path lies ahead for civil-military
industrial relations.- Theme Six: The Principle of Irish Neutrality.
Chapter
18. Ireland, NATO and the Return of Geopolitics in Europe.
Chapter
19.
Irish Military Neutrality 1924-1945: A Historical Perspective for Modern
Consideration.
Chapter
20. Generating More Heat Than Light? The Debate over
Irelands Neutrality and the European Army.
Chapter
21. Conclusion.
Jonathan Carroll is a PhD Candidate in Military History at Texas A&M University, USA.
Matthew G. ONeill is a Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) postgraduate researcher in Political Science at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queens University Belfast, UK.
Mark Williams is a Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) postgraduate researcher at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queens University Belfast, UK.
