I was around back then. I thought it was most interesting that, at any given time, there were never more than about 100 active IRA shooters, total.
And yet one loosely organized company sized element managed to hold the British army at a stand-still.
And if you think that the Brits used "...kiddie gloves on with them.", it's because you never had access to the classified after-action reports from that time, so your ignorance of the "ground truth" there and then is understandable. Not to fret, though. You aren't alone in that.
I was around back then. I thought it was most interesting that, at any given time, there were never more than about 100 active IRA shooters, total.
And yet one loosely organized company sized element managed to hold the British army at a stand-still.
And if you think that the Brits used "...kiddie gloves on with them.", it's because you never had access to the classified after-action reports from that time, so your ignorance of the "ground truth" there and then is understandable. Not to fret, though. You aren't alone in that.
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