Finding the Words: The IIEA Handbook of Irish Security and Defence Terminology

Ireland potentially finds itself in the most rapidly changing and most complex security landscape in its history. Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine has returned large-scale kinetic conflict to Europe, while non-conventional and non-kinetic threats, such as cyber attacks, continue to threaten the economic prosperity of the State and the security of its citizens.

This increased complexity has led to the increased opacity of the frameworks, concepts, and vocabulary which we use to understand global security. This handbook, written by IIEA Security and Defence Researcher Cian FitzGerald, is designed to assist in clarifying many of these concepts, while providing an entry-point for the general reader into the ever-increasingly dynamic world of security and defence.