The Irish Defence Forces Joint Professional Military Education Strategy 2025-2028

Colin Lawlor

Abstract

This article introduces the Irish Defence Forces' Joint Professional Military Education Strategy 2025-2028.  It provides an insight into the challenge of writing a military education strategy during a time of unprecedented organisational change, driven by the recommendations of the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces published in 2022.  The article highlights the efforts made to achieve strategic alignment for JPME by ‘nesting’ the strategy in both defence policy and Government plans for the transformation of the Defence Forces.  The article introduces key aspects of the strategy, including the framework and principles used to provide coherence to the overall approach.