Declan Power is a former Irish Army soldier, defence analyst and writer. Power originally joined the Army Reserve (then ''FCÁ''), before serving in a variety of roles in the

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. He later had a number of appointments in Ireland and abroad, including internal security, peacekeeping and anti-terrorism duties. He also attended the Military College and a number of other specialist Defence Force schools and courses. Power's later years of service were spent attached to the

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's Branch at Defence Forces Headquarters (DFHQ). He is a graduate of

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and Trinity College Dublin. He wrote a book on the Siege of Jadotville, which was published in 2005 and adapted for film in 2015. He published a further book, titled ''Beyond the Call of Duty: Heroism in the Irish Defence Forces'', in 2010. As of 2013, Power was a contributing analyst on security and defence matters to a variety of institutions and media, including the

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's ''Irish Studies in International Affairs (from the Congo to Mali, 2013)''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Power, Declan Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Irish military personnel Alumni of Dublin City University Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Irish non-fiction writers 20th-century Irish people 21st-century Irish people