Uncivil War: the British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975

"Uncivil War: the British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975." Intelligence and National Security, 39(4), pp. 747–748

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Notes

1. Charles Townshend, The British Campaign in Ireland, 1919–1921: The development of political and military policies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.

2. Edward Burke, An Army of Tribes: British Army Cohesion, Deviancy and Murder in Northern Ireland. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018.

3. J. Bowyer Bell, A Time of Terror: How Democratic Societies Respond to Revolutionary Violence. New York: Basic Books, 1978, 131.

4. The BAOR was the United Kingdom’s main land contribution to NATO. Headquartered at JHQ Rheindahlen in West Germany between 1954 and 2013. The BAOR was commanded by a general and consisted – in peacetime – of British I Corps and supporting units. In 1969 the BAOR deployed some 53,000 troops.

5. The PIRA emerged in December 1969 after a split within the IRA and the Irish Republican movement. By 1972 it had succeeded the Official IRA (OIRA) as the dominant Republican paramilitary organisation.

6. The MRF was a covert intelligence-gathering and counterinsurgency unit of the British Army. It was formed in Northern Ireland in 1971 and disbanded in late 1972.