Brigade reduction will have significant implications

“It would not make sense to first build a factory and only then decide what to make in it.

However, it appears that the elimination of a brigade was decided upon without a detailed analysis of what will be required of the army in the coming years and of the structural options to enable delivery.”

That was the view of Col Brian O’Keeffe, general secretary of the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (RACO), in an editorial in the most recent edition of its magazine, Signal.