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Battle for Ulster
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Battle for Ulster
Contents: the context for internal security; the internal security operation (evolution of internal security; benefits of intelligence; intelligence collection; threat assessment; Republican reaction: hunger strikes); background of the troubles; participants in the struggle (Provisional IRA; INLA; Loyalist Paramilitaries; political parties; The Republic); obstacles to peace; prospects for the future. Appendices: chronology of violence and intimidation; major participants in the struggle; threat assessment in Scotland Yard; and statistics on internal security. Maps and photos.
Battle for Ulster
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Thomas J. Wood
Thomas J. Wood, Kentuckian, graduated fifth in his West Point class in 1846 and joined the staff of General Zachary Taylor. The Mexican War was just beginning and Wood fought in several battles after which he served under General Winfield Scott in Mexico City. In 1861, Wood became a brigadier general of volunteers and began his Civil War service with the Army of the Cumberland, with whom he fought in every campaign and most of its major battles. Wood has never before been the subject of a full length biography but is well known for a notorious lapse of judgment resulting in a Confederate breakthrough at Chickamauga that shattered the Union right flank and threatened the survival of the Army of the Cumberland. It is a moment in the war still argued about. Wood learned from his mistake, became a better general from that time on (notably at Missionary Ridge and Nashville), and redeemed himself in the eyes of his fellow officers and his civilian superiors.
Antiterrorist Initiatives
Traditionally, terrorist bands operating in rural or urban areas use vio lence to cast themselves as a legitimate political force. Necklacing, plac ing an oil-soaked tire around the neck of an informer and then igniting it, and knee-capping, positioning a handgun behind the kneecap of a "tout" (a police informer) and then squeezing the trigger, are among the enforcement methods used by clandestine groups to administer "revo lutionary justice." Necklacing is used by the African National Con gress (A.N.C.). Knee-capping is a traditional Irish Republican Army (I. R. A.) tactic. Governments frequently lend credibility to the terrorists' claim of legitimacy by not implementing measures intended t...
The MAC Flyer
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