Depleted Defence Forces need expertise
That is according to most senior official in the Department of Defence who says he and his colleagues are working on a number of measures to bolster numbers in the Army, Naval Service, and Air Corps, which have fallen to what are now critically low levels.
Almost 3,000 highly-experience personnel have resigned from the three arms of the Defence Forces in the past few years, leaving them seriously depleted of expertise in several sections, especially those which would have to prevent or react to a terrorist attack against this country.
