Moving towards more military cooperation
The Defence White Paper acknowledges that we cannot defend ourselves alone
The new White Paper on Defence is comprehensive and pragmatic in its creation of a vehicle in which the Irish state can navigate the sea of threats on which we will sail over the next decade or more.
Thankfully, a recent Defence Force threat assessment does not put Ireland top of the list for either a terrorist attack or indeed a conventional incursion from a belligerent nation.
However, as defence minister Simon Coveney ...
