Decided to make a hypothetical 2040 Defence forces organisation. It’s ambitious in comparison to what will likely materialise, but in terms of general ambition of what an Irish Military could look like I don’t think it is overly so.
For the army I reinstated the 3 brigade structure, reestablishing units disbanded and reassigned them to their original brigades. The army reserve would encompass 2 distinct types, the territorial defence brigades being a “second line” reserve designed for mobilisation in times of national emergency, and a first line reserve augmenting active army units. The armoured brigade is probably an unlikely development, tho it is in truth just a mechanised infantry force mounted in tracked as opposed to wheeled systems with 120mm tracked afvs.
The armoured battalions would contain a company of 120mm light tanks aka an if with a 120mm as opposed to an auto cannon on an ifv variant, and 2 companies of infantry mounted in tracked ifvs. What’s much more likely would be 1 and 2 brigade to transition to light mech and mech brigades and then the establishment of 4 brigade as an armoured force later, however in my design I altered it in order to make the garrisoning of unit types make more sense, ie 4 western brigade in lighter shelled platforms, and so on.
The rest is pretty self explanatory, and was fun to make.
The thing about marines in they are inherently expeditionary focused, though there would be utility in a limited marine unit for point defence and reinforcement of Ireland west coast and its islands. Also acting as a recon and drone force. I modelled my proposed marine infantry battalion within my coastal defence regiment on a Dutch MCG ( but kept the traditional army unit designations; company section etc)
@CiaranMeagher3@DaveTweet176908 it is definitely worthy of debate to say that prime mbappe is nowhere near prime messi, even if its true its still something that she should have and did push him on