A private scheme set up by the association which represents rank-and-file members of the Defence Forces has saved many personnel from being discharged on medical grounds because they are getting speedy treatment north of the border.

Ireland should withdraw from involvement in the EU/Nato army — “As a nation we box above our weight.”

They are serving abroad on peacekeeping missions in the likes of Syria, South Lebanon and Mali.

US president Donald Trump has released an order banning most transgender troops from serving in the military except under "limited circumstances", following up on his calls last year to ban transgender individuals from serving.

Fifty years ago, 7 June 1968, I walked down the main street of a small central California valley town called Merced — population 60,000 — with several former senator Robert F Kennedy supporters, collecting signatures to put controls on the manufacture, distribution and ownership of guns throughout the USA.

Thailand and the United States have launched the largest annual joint military exercise in Southeast Asia but played down the presence of a Burmese military officer.

The value of Irish exports of equipment that can be used for both military and civilian applications more than doubled last year to almost €3.3bn.

US military personnel in Okinawa have been restricted to base and banned from drinking alcohol after a Marine was arrested over a crash that killed a Japanese man.

In a statement, the military said it had interviewed thousands of people during its month-long investigation into the conduct of troops in western Rakhine state after Rohingya insurgents launched a series of attacks there on August 25.

As hundreds of thousands of the Rohingya Muslim minority flee ethnic conflict in Myanmar, Brahma Chellaney looks at the history of the country’s simmering internal divisions.