With the government planning abolition, Derek answers 7 critical questions:

• Why it's not sovereignty loss,
• Why reform, not abolition is sensible
• How the Fianna Fáil leader shifted from 2020's "fully maintain" pledge to backing abolition
• What public support means,
• Why defence mustn't be politicised
• Value of military neutrality, and
• Brutal reality that the Defence Forces is at less than 70% of its 11,500 target strength.

Martin, Harris, McEntee and Byrne cannot Triple Lock their way out of their massive capability gap