David Petraeus Defends British Army Just Days Before New Accusations Of War Crimes
The apparent support expressed by David Petraeus, the disgraced former United States Army general, for the controversial campaign in theContinue Reading
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Jeremy Hunt: To Protect Peace, Both Sides In Troubles Need To Be Treated The Same
After two years of Brexit-frenzied politics in the United Kingdom it’s almost shocking to hear a UK leader expressing aContinue Reading
Game Of Thrones And The Troubles: Justifying The Killing Of Civilians
While there is some contention and uncertainty over the precise figures, authors and researchers generally agree that just over 35%Continue Reading
The Irish And British News Media, And The Bloody Sunday Massacre
The Irish press is giving ample coverage to the disappointing decision by the authorities in the United Kingdom to prosecuteContinue Reading
UK Minister Karen Bradley: Irish Killings By British Forces Were “Not Crimes”
With the political and press establishment in the United Kingdom racketing up its protests against any attempt by the regionalContinue Reading
Ex-UDA Gunman Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair Gets The YouTube Treatment
I honestly don’t know what to make of this rather fawning interview by the Scottish YouTuber James English with theContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar: British Police And Army On The Border If No-Deal Brexit
An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaking yesterday on the issue of a no-deal Brexit with two rather poorly-informed if somewhat sympatheticContinue Reading
UK Minister: New Overseas Bases Will Make Britain A Global Military Player
When civil servants in the United Kingdom first started referring to the country’s post-Brexit economic strategy as the “Empire 2.0”Continue Reading
No Man’s Land. News Footage From The UK’s Former Hard Border In Ireland
With a significant number of anti-agreement politicians and journalists in the United Kingdom continuing to dismiss the risk of aContinue Reading
British Army Blowing Up A Cross-Border Bridge. A Brexit Warning
From an avowedly partisan television news report broadcast to UK viewers in September 1975*, a video clip of soldiers andContinue Reading
Video: Brexit, A Cry From The Irish Border
The Irish actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union and theContinue Reading
The Ballymurphy Precedent. A New Documentary On The 1971 Massacre By The British Army
Between Monday the 9th and Wednesday the 11th of August 1971, the Parachute Regiment of the British Army murdered elevenContinue Reading
Ending The Troubles: How The British Came To Negotiate The Peace Process
Over the last decade the politics lecturer Niall Ó Dochartaigh has done a fantastic job of analysing the complex andContinue Reading
Brexit Defenders Of Hard Border In Ireland Reference British Army Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. That New Testament warning springs toContinue Reading
The Glenanne Gang: Britain’s Soldiers Turned Gunmen During The Troubles
The Glenanne Gang was a state-backed terrorist group which operated in the United Kingdom’s embattled legacy colony on the islandContinue Reading
The DUP And Tories Demand An Amnesty For The British Army Death Squads
The Military Reaction Force or MRF was a covert British Army unit which operated in the greater Belfast area duringContinue Reading
UK Ministers Demand General Amnesty For British Army War Crimes In Ireland
Around 5.00pm on Monday the 23rd of October 1972, thirty-one-year-old Michael Naan drove into his isolated farm in the townlandContinue Reading
The Total Of Conflict-Related Deaths After 1998 And The End Of The Irish-British Troubles
Since the signing of the multiparty and intergovernmental Good Friday Agreement of April 1998, and up to December 2017, nearlyContinue Reading
The Remembrance Day Or Enniskillen Bombing, A Warning From History
On Wednesday the 28th of October 1987 the windows of a Renault 9 car parked outside a line of garages inContinue Reading
The Impossibility Of Camouflaging A Main Battle Tank In A City
The use of camouflage for military purposes, as we would understand it today, probably began in the late 18th andContinue Reading
The Torture Of Suspected Insurgents By The US And The UK
Two related stories about torture or more specifically the clinical nature of physical and psychological abuse when practiced by mature,Continue Reading
An Army Humiliated, The British Military In Ireland, Afghanistan And Iraq
In retrospect it seemed inevitable that the Irish Republican Army would emerge largely undefeated from twenty years of conflict with the BritishContinue Reading
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