When do 'troubles', riots and insurgency become war? How does a liberal state respond to an internal war within its own borders? How does it define the rules of engagement for its armed forces? These questions, amongst others, faced the British government in 1969, when it decided to send the British Army to the streets of Northern Ireland.This is the first academic study of the British Army in Northern Ireland, featuring Scottish, Welsh, Irish and English regiments. It investigates the complex experiences of soldiers during the often-controversial Operation Banner (1969-2007). The experiences of these soldiers raise many important and difficult questions on war and policy. Featuring key interviews with former soldiers, paramilitaries and Special Branch detectives, amongst other key actors, the authors attempt to answer these questions and enhance our knowledge of conflict resolution by providing a deep analysis of one of the most significant British military operations since the Second World War.
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Far more has been written on paramilitary groups in the Northern Ireland conflict than on the role of the British military itself. This vivid study, based on extensive first-hand research, contributes very valuably to correcting that imbalance. As it does so, it offers important insights relevant to Northern Ireland and the UK, but also to wider conflict settings as armies attempt to respond to the challenges of political violence. --Professor Richard English, University of St Andrews.
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Andrew Sanders is the John Moore Newman Research Fellow at University College Dublin. He is the author of Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy (Edinburgh, 2011). Ian S. Wood is a distinguished Military historian, lecturer and journalist. He is the author of Gods, Guns and Ulster (Caxton 2003); Crimes of Loyalty: a History of the UDA (Edinburgh 2006); Britain, Ireland and the Second World War (Edinburgh 2010) and is a contributing author to A Military History of Scotland (Edinburgh 2012).
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I found this an unsatisfactory book because I enjoyed the authors' other books. The contents of this one don't really go with the book's description. It is often confused, lacks a coherent thread and, in parts, is, actually, poorly written. Sometimes it reads like and out and out propaganda book for the British army. The assessment of the IRA failure is sometimes refreshing and correct but there is no real context or any deep appreciation of the particular circumstances of the Troubles. There are some (though not enough) good and useful interviews, which ocasionally contain views which should (but aren't) challenged or explored. Overall, it reads as if it was written too quickly and not really thought through. Disappointing.
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