Interesting articles

The UK Defence Journal's twitter engagement is hilariously immature. Its like Paddy Cosgrave is managing their account.

While the topic may be valid, they really shouldn't be taken any more seriously than two quid gossip mag.

The actual article in question came out in February. Not sure why it made its way to social media just now.

One sided smear job. No investigation or counter arguments. Bait.

Hope the victim makes a full recovery,very disturbing attack.

No indication of attackers motives,but far left radicals are active in Galway,graffiti is commonplace around Galway from same group.

Btw the garrison church is outside the security perimeter of the barracks,it's not clear where attack took place.

They aren't the Gardaí. They have no mandate to discharge their weapons in a public space, which I'm assuming the location outside of the Barracks' gates would be considered.

Yes I know that begs the question what is the point of sentries, but really they are there to prevent incursion and the loss of anything sensitive or dangerous on the base itself. As soldiers, without being under specific orders to act as as aid to the civil power, they can't just shoot people. In my view they did the right thing.

RULES

Whatever about ROEs a stabbing is as close and personal as you can get , so a clear line of fire may not have been available , and then there's the fact that it's an urban n area , and the lads on sentry duty probably had Styr rifles , the chances of the bullet keeping going even if it did connect with the attacker are pretty high ,

A few years ago Ireland wanted to bring heavy weaponry, specifically Javelin missiles, to the Lebanon. Israel objected, officially because they were worried a Javelin might fall into Hezbolah hands, more probably because they do not want to set a precedent where UN forces have as good weaponry as they do. Instead they offered to give any Irish units operating in the area fire support from their 105mm guns. On one occasion the Irish requested the support and received it, which, of course, was billed as the Israeli’s rescuing weak Irish forces in the media. I doubt the army would want to be in that position in the future and would like its own fire support, either missile or arty based. I also doubt that the Israelis would offer it.

it seems peacekeepers would be more likely defending their bases not moving to capture areas as the article describes, really dont know what the russia invasion/war has to do with peacekeeping

Not all UN deployments are peacekeeping. Some are peace enforcement, which includes engagements of organised hostiles, such as the UN mandated operations in the former Yugoslavia in the mid 1990s.

And so it would absolute foolishness, neglectful even, for the tacticians of the armies of the World not to be looking closely at how the land war in Ukraine and Russia is evolving, now that the use of field artillery and armour is changing, as supplementary technology including drones and super-accurate counter-battery capability are part of the mix.