What Are The 5 Most Important Strategic Targets In Ireland?

galwayrush · 22-01-2013 12:13AM

The Iodine tablet factory..

crockholm · 22-01-2013 12:13AM

doulikeit wrote: »

So what's the plan boss

Use drunk-driving kilgarvan OAPs to block the roads
Wait? what thread am I on?

minidazzler · 22-01-2013 12:14AM

doulikeit wrote: »

oh i like u ur a lil .marine killing people and blowing things up if an invasion force seen all these posts they would be so scared they would run for their lives
go chairbourne hu ahhh

1. You have a full keyboard and a mostly unlimited character count... use it so my eyes don't get annoyed.

2. That's what would happen, a lot of people would engage the invaders in guerilla warfare. You don't win wars anymore like in WW2 where you beat an enemy in open conflict and then call a truce, you win it by demoralising the enemy so much that their people demand they quit. The Americans would have won Vietnam if it wasn't for the public opinion of the war.

doulikeit · 22-01-2013 12:14AM

crockholm wrote: »

Use drunk-driving kilgarvan OAPs to block the roads
Wait? what thread am I on?

that'll do

Mint Sauce · 22-01-2013 12:17AM

Surely though the Brits would come down from their Army Bases in the North to help us out should we come under attack.

Although if you are talking strategic targets in Ireland, surely we're including ones on both sides of the border.

<runs and hides after opening tin of worms>

Pottler · 22-01-2013 12:18AM

Personally I'm going with the "Temple Bar" option as most liky to succeed.

minidazzler · 22-01-2013 12:19AM

irish-stew wrote: »

Surely though the Brits would come down from their Army Bases in the North to help us out should we come under attack.

Although if you are talking strategic targets in Ireland, surely we're including ones on both sides of the border.

<runs and hides after opening tin of worms>

I think it would be either them invading us, or the Yanks invading as a prelude to invading Europe.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 22-01-2013 12:20AM

doulikeit wrote: »

oh i like u ur a lil .marine killing people and blowing things up if an invasion force seen all these posts they would be so scared they would run for their lives
go chairbourne hu ahhh

He's right though. Sporadic guerilla warfare is all we could offer, and thats how ya do it.

Where is your suggestion?

Gmol · 22-01-2013 12:25AM

Lady of Lourdes hospital

doulikeit · 22-01-2013 12:27AM

Stealth Recce wrote: »

He's right though. Sporadic guerilla warfare is all we could offer, and thats how ya do it.

Where is your suggestion?

Don't worry bud we are a warrior nation we were born to fight

oh and a big tube of lube

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 22-01-2013 12:31AM

doulikeit wrote: »

Don't worry bud we are a warrior nation we were born to fight

oh and a big tube of lube

Thanks for the education.

Keep the lube, real men go in dry :pac:

Fox_In_Socks · 22-01-2013 12:34AM

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Thanks for the education.

Keep the lube, real men go in dry :pac:

They go in dry pacmen?

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 22-01-2013 12:37AM

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

They go in dry pacmen?

Yeah don't they? well that's what yo daddy said!

Heeeeeyyyyoooooo :pac::P:)

LordSutch · 22-01-2013 01:00AM

newmug wrote: »

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.

When & where was this?

Cookie_Monster · 22-01-2013 01:04AM

yeppydeppy wrote: »

Can't we do this anyway?

do the Irish militray have any planes big enough to carry bombs?

Son Of A Vidic · 22-01-2013 01:04AM

SafeSurfer wrote: »

What Are The 5 Most Important Strategic Targets In Ireland?

1) The Pub.

2) The Club.

3) The Takeaway.

4) The Taxi Rank.

5) The Leaba.

Bruthal · 22-01-2013 01:07AM

yeppydeppy wrote: »

Can't we do this anyway?

We could get des kelly to do it

LordSutch · 22-01-2013 01:10AM

1/ Garda HQ in the Pheonix park.
2/ Michael D Higgins pad in the park.
3/ RTE Studios Donnybrook.
4/ Curragh Army barracks.
5/ Dublin Airport.

But like why would we be targets, and who would be doing the attacking

bluecode · 22-01-2013 01:24AM

Cork actually as mentioned. You need somewhere for the invasion fleet and Shannon airport so you land your planes. After that it's the command and control sites probably in Dublin and the Curragh. Once you blind the army they can't respond. Then knock out any radar installations and mobile phone masts.

No point in attacking the barracks or Baldonnel aerodrome. The Air Corps has very little military capability and if you attack on a weekend most of the army will be at home.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-01-2013 02:54AM

minidazzler wrote: »

1. Shannon Airport. It's the only airport we have which is capable of landing large transport Aircraft

an Antanov 124 needs 900m to land.
and that can be on grass / hard packed snow / frozen marshes
Phoenix Park, probably even Leopardstown Race Course

for a C-17 it's 1,064m (27.4 m wide, and that includes turning)

at the worst they'd have to chemically prepare a grass strip by spraying it with stuff to stabilise the ground.

I can remember when the talk was about the land mines embedded under the Naas road so we could prevent it being used as a runway and make ourselves less attractive.

Ryu Hayabusa · 22-01-2013 03:08AM

RAF Aldergrove
Dublin Airport
Shannon Airport
Curragh
Foynes

Chuck Stone · 22-01-2013 03:12AM

mconigol wrote: »

2. Landing points of undersea internet cables - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/datablog/interactive/2012/feb/28/undersea-internet-cable-map-interactive

How did they lay them so straight?

gallag · 22-01-2013 03:28AM

I can not imagine a situation where ireland would be under attack and the UK not get involved, I would imagine we neighbours could protect our islands quite well.

mikemac1 · 22-01-2013 08:47AM

Where Tipperary leads, Ireland follows :cool:

Tipp is the key to Ireland, always was, always will be

First shots in War of Independance & seat of power for Brian Boru for just two examples

dj jarvis · 22-01-2013 09:08AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Where Tipperary leads, Ireland follows :cool:

Tipp is the key to Ireland, always was, always will be

First shots in War of Independance & seat of power for Brian Boru for just two examples

true for ya
i heard that during the cold war both the Russians and the Americans had the majority of their ICBM targeted on tipp, due to its strategic importance
both side were afraid that if the other took tipp, the game would be up

retired chief of staff chag mc luvandstuuf is quoted " if mary macs chipper in Kilsheelan falls, europe will be doomed "

let the rest of the country fall , hold kilsheelan at ALL COSTS

CruelCoin · 22-01-2013 10:16AM

Blay wrote: »

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.

You generally don't invade a country without enough troops to control the entirety.

That said, any invasion large enough to hold the country would be many, many times larger than the defence forces.
Also, any country capable of launching such an invasion would have air/long range support that we have no real way of countering.
An invasion capable of holding the country would result in a automatic loss for the defence forces.

Dyr · 22-01-2013 10:29AM

bluecode wrote: »

No point in attacking the barracks or Baldonnel aerodrome. The Air Corps has very little military capability and if you attack on a weekend most of the army will be at home.

And will call in sick on the monday :pac:

suicide_circus · 22-01-2013 10:43AM

I heard that the spire is actually a giant intercontinental nuke in disguise, so when we are invaded, we just launch the spire at their capital.

An Coilean · 22-01-2013 11:14AM

Kirby wrote: »

I think people sometimes get confused as to the difference between an occupation and a massacre.

We see the distinction in how we describe these conflicts. It's described as "War" when both sides adhere to rules. It's described as "Genocide" when they don't.

The reason why we were successfull in ousting the british is because they didn't want to kill us, merely control us. The reason why small civilian forces have succeeded in defeating larger armies throughout history is not tactical....it's moral. The americans defeating the british, us defeating the british, you mentioned america's failure to stop Al Qaeda. Guerilla warfare only works when the oppressors refuse to kill the population.

If an enemy force merely wanted to capture the country, then the things you suggest would have some merit. But if they wanted to kill us and just started wiping out civilians....than our tiny and paltry armed forces could do nothing to stop it. That's just the reality of it.

Thats not necessarily true, have a look at the Polish Home Army during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. They were able to recuit and train new members and maintain tens of thousands of troops in the field and carry out opporations against the enemy effectivly.
Even after five years of one of the most brutal occupations in history they were still capable of launching a rising in Warsaw that saw their forces take on and beat German Army and SS units in the city and hold out against sustained German attacks for months.

Leftist · 22-01-2013 11:39AM

if you parked a few burnt out buses across the m50 the country would grind to a halt for at least two days.

after that, if I was a loyalist or a bane type villain, I would then scatter leaves on the dublin to belfast/galway and cork railway lines. Try to do it on the same day as the buses but in reality you could give it days before anyone knows what to do with the buses.

You've basically shut down the country.

I would then rip videos from RTE and put them all over youtube, that would throw them into a chaos and all their time will be spent trying to block them and then releasing embarrassing statements.

During hte confusion I would infiltrate RTE HQ and release a fake report telling the state that foreigners are thinking of campaigning to the EU to prevent the sale of alcohol on st. patrick's day.

I reckon by day 8 you're talking about the whole place flung back about 600 years. People would be eating muck and setting fire to the airport.

What Are The 5 Most Important Strategic Targets In Ireland?

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