What Are The 5 Most Important Strategic Targets In Ireland?

SafeSurfer · 21-01-2013 01:36AM #1

If hypothetically a foreign invader, or even domestic revolutionaries wanted to take control of the country, what would be the most important targets to capture?
I was thinking.
1. RTE
2. Dublin Airport
3. Dail Eireann - for symbolic effect
4. Electricity Generating Stations and National Grid
5. The Major Ports - Foynes, Dublin, Rosslare etc.

What do you think?

orestes · 21-01-2013 01:38AM

A couple of biscuit factories, a post office and the college of surgeons, apparently.

Bad Santa · 21-01-2013 01:38AM

U2 (that McGuiness fella's always saying he's the 5th member).

KerranJast · 21-01-2013 01:39AM

Coppers

DwightSchrute1 · 21-01-2013 01:40AM

st james gate.. if they stopped production we would be on our knees within days

Witcher · 21-01-2013 01:41AM

Seizing the Dail, RTE etc. before cutting off the Defence Forces barracks around Dublin would be suicide, the army will fold into the city to hold it and the invaders will be cut off in the city centre.

As said..the biscuit factories would be the key site along with James Gate:pac:

newmug · 21-01-2013 01:44AM

I would say some of the road network around Dublin, the like of the M50 roundabouts on the various roads leading into the city. Any oil refineries or storage depots. We can live without RTE or the airport.

SafeSurfer · 21-01-2013 01:47AM

The Irish military would hardly be able to resist an enemy willing to launch an attack to occupy the country. Speed would be decisive. If you hold Dublin you hold the country, thats where the levers of state are and where a large part of the population reside.
A counter attack by the Irish army would be futile in the light of overwhelming enemy air superiority. A mobilisation of the Irish army would be annihilated.

Witcher · 21-01-2013 01:53AM

SafeSurfer wrote: »

The Irish military would hardly be able to resist an enemy willing to launch an attack to occupy the country. Speed would be decisive. If you hold Dublin you hold the country, thats where the levers of state are and where a large part of the population reside.
A counter attack by the Irish army would be futile in the light of overwhelming enemy air superiority. A mobilisation of the Irish army would be annihilated.

Air assets wouldn't even be needed to seize Ireland bar a few transport planes. Ground attack fighters and choppers would be a waste of fuel because we have no armour for them to engage so it would come down to numbers on the ground and who knows the place better. The barracks around Dublin would move to hold the city, gather themselves and then if possible push out into Kildare, Meath, Wicklow if they could. The invaders would need to land thousands on the coast of Dublin and have them push inland to hold the edges of the city and stop an advance by Irish troops. Plus assuming the UK aren't the one's invading us..it would be in their interests to aid us.

The DF aren't just going to fall over like chess pieces..I'm confident that at least some of them would have the balls to do something..if a load of sheep herders can harass US troops in Afghanistan for 12 years I think trained men could put up some sort of fight.

Kippure · 21-01-2013 01:56AM

SafeSurfer wrote: »

If hypothetically a foreign invader, or even domestic revolutionaries wanted to take control of the country, what would be the most important targets to capture?
I was thinking.
1. RTE
2. Dublin Airport
3. Dail Eireann - for symbolic effect
4. Electricity Generating Stations and National Grid
5. The Major Ports - Foynes, Dublin, Rosslare etc.

What do you think?

What have you in mind.

Cookie_Monster · 21-01-2013 01:58AM

Dublin Airport
Dublin Port
Rosslare Port
Cork Port or Belfast Port (depends who is invading I suppose)
Carpet bomb the Dail

Everything pretty much comes in or goes out of the east coast ports. Closing / controlling them would quickly cripple the country.

maddragon · 21-01-2013 02:03AM

SafeSurfer wrote: »

If hypothetically a foreign invader, or even domestic revolutionaries wanted to take control of the country, what would be the most important targets to capture?
I was thinking.
1. RTE
2. Dublin Airport
3. Dail Eireann - for symbolic effect
4. Electricity Generating Stations and National Grid
5. The Major Ports - Foynes, Dublin, Rosslare etc.

What do you think?

Is that you Willie Frazer?

Biggins · 21-01-2013 02:03AM

1. RTE
2. Dublin Airport
3. Dail Eireann - for symbolic effect. (certainly not to catch all our TD's in it - that would be a very lucky day!)
4. Dublin Castle - for previous intelligence gathered and for possible additional equipment
5. Any building that controls the lines of communication over Irelands internet system.

Max Power · 21-01-2013 02:04AM

Sky TV

newmug · 21-01-2013 02:06AM

Blay wrote: »

The DF aren't just going to fall over like chess pieces..I'm confident that at least some of them would have the balls to do something..if a load of sheep herders can harass US troops in Afghanistan for 12 years I think trained men could put up some sort of fight.

If a group of Irish farmers and construction workers can hold off the British Army for 30 years and get them out, then our trained, professional soldiers would have an excellent chance.

Lelantos · 21-01-2013 02:08AM

They would have to take Limerick city, going to be hard to do without nukes

Witcher · 21-01-2013 02:11AM

Lelantos wrote: »

They would have to take Limerick city, going to be hard to do without nukes

Sure you could knock down the walls of Limerick with roasted apples and you don't have Patrick Sarsfield to help ya's this time:pac:

Yakult · 21-01-2013 02:16AM

The pub
The offy
Dole office
Da Dail
Knock airport

Rocky Bay · 21-01-2013 02:22AM

1.Whitegate refinery.
2.Whiddy.
3.All locomotives.
4.The Shannon.
5.All facilities that generate or transport power.

grizzly · 21-01-2013 02:22AM

I remember reading that in the face of a superior land invasion the Irish Defence Forces wouldn't attempt to meet them head on, but start guerrilla warfare operations.

jimmy180sx · 21-01-2013 02:25AM

Sellafield

WoollyRedHat · 21-01-2013 02:28AM

OP is clearly a terrorist, not very subtle though.

Lelantos · 21-01-2013 02:29AM

grizzly wrote: »

I remember reading that in the face of a superior land invasion the Irish Defence Forces wouldn't attempt to meet them head on, but start guerrilla warfare operations.

They'd be based in Dublin zoo & Fota island so?

Brian Lighthouse · 21-01-2013 02:38AM

For Western/Developed - whatever term you choose - States the probability of an invasion is quite small. War for these nations is systematically carried out through the financial markets.

On the original point: There are three things that any State will collapse without.
It would be extremely cheap to cripple any nation by disabling two of these, the third will fall after a few days.
There is no need to spend millions on weapons, vehicles and soldiers to launch an invasion force. Besides when it`s all over all the buildings will be intact, apart from a few damaged in any riots etc. So no mad expense in re-building.
However war doesn`t work that way, and contracts need to be signed to feed and supply your army and re-construct strategic buildings that needed to be destroyed.

On a side note: Ireland does have the fifth largest supply of fresh water in the world and we could be on the front-line of some war in the future. If we play our cards right, we could have the contract for supplying water and beef to some other invading force in some other part of the world.
Would we be that aggressively mercantile?

fasttalkerchat · 21-01-2013 02:40AM

Dole office.

marcsignal · 21-01-2013 02:41AM

I was gonna say UPC, but it would probably be a fcukin improvement..

TheBza · 21-01-2013 02:56AM

The GPO.

PureDacent · 21-01-2013 03:04AM

Keep money in the governments pockets
Waist money on taxes for the bolixes
Buy some biscuits
Get a stripper for a sexy party
and stay cool

matchthis · 21-01-2013 03:05AM

Twink, pat kenny, sinead O'Connor, dail with them all inside and Dublin bus. Then I'd join em:D

arybvtcw0eolkf · 21-01-2013 03:22AM

SafeSurfer wrote: »

The Irish military would hardly be able to resist an enemy willing to launch an attack to occupy the country. Speed would be decisive. If you hold Dublin you hold the country, thats where the levers of state are and where a large part of the population reside.
A counter attack by the Irish army would be futile in the light of overwhelming enemy air superiority. A mobilisation of the Irish army would be annihilated.

You need to brush up on the War of the Flea my friend.

megafan · 21-01-2013 03:38AM

The Banks!... Ho wait it's already been done?:rolleyes:

What Are The 5 Most Important Strategic Targets In Ireland?

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