Ebook: The British Army in Northern Ireland

London: Arms and Armour Press, 1985. - 270 pgs. Lieutenant-Colonel Dewar, informed by his own experiences serving in Northern Ireland, describes the tactics, methods, and equipment evolved by the Army to meet the ever-changing challenge of the IRA, their sympathizers, and occasionally their opponents. Accounts of specific incidents as experienced by some of the regiments that have served tours in the province, including the Paras, the Green Jackets, the Royal Artillery and the Royal Marines, convey vividly the feel of being out on patrol in Belfast and Londonderry-where at every street corner there might be a high-velocity rifle pointing directly at your back. Historical background covers the civil rights movement and communal violence of 1967-70, the worst years of 1971-76, and the reorganization for a long war-1977-
85. Another dismal chronicle in which uninspired government leaders send in the military to 'solve' what is a socio-political problem.