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The Military History of a Domestic Conflict
| Author | Tony Geraghty |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins |
| ISBN # | 0801864569 |
| On-line Merchant | The Johns Hopkins University Press |
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here to read an interview with
Tony
Geraghty author of The Irish War
As the IRA turned agitation and street violence into practised urban warfare, the British government responded with increasingly sophisticated countermeasures, including military force. Both sides played down their intentions: the IRA took cover in democratic protests and the British claimed to be successfully containing civil unrest. Yet behind the scenes both were developing the strategy and technology of full-fledged war.
With access to top-level
experts, military veteran and historian Tony Geraghty reveals the sinister
patterns of action and reaction in this domestic conflict. Drawing on public
and covert sources, as well as interviews with members of the SAS and M15,
elite Special Branch officers and many in the security forces and IRA,
he brings to light the disturbing inner workings of an organized terrorist
group and its
military opposition. Tracing
the roots of the Troubles from the greatly mythologized Battle of the Boyne,
The Irish War shows how the current battle has expanded to embrace 'forms
of surveillance and counter-surveillance, interrogation, chemical analysis
and electronic eavesdropping,' that have dangerous implications for thepopulation
at large.
Whether or not the politics of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement finally break the grip of 'the physical force tradition' in Ireland, the legacy of covert warfare engendered by this long and bloody struggle will affect British and Irish liberty for years to come.
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