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tom8517 · 05-30-2017, 01:12 PM

As I posted earlier, it was a vicious little war. Plenty of atrocities to go around on all three sides, if you can count the security forces and the loyalist gangs as separate. The UDR in particular were more or less the UDA in a Government issued uniform.

Whether or not one agrees with the goals, there is a difference in a guerilla war where armed soldiers and police were the targets as opposed to deliberately going after civilians. The IRA had the technical expertise to inflict mass civilian causality attacks on a scale that could have rivalled 9/11, they chose not to. That doesn't make them heroes, it was a pragmatic decision because they realized that such attacks would be met with revulsion by the nationalists of the north, and even more so by their supporters in the US. At Enniskilen in particular both the IRA and Sinn Fein saw major drop offs in support that they didn't recover for a very long time.

The bombing campaign was always riskier than gun attacks precisely because it was so much harder to limit civilian causalities. Its a problem that even modern conventional forces face. If the US air force, or the RAF for that,matter bombs ISIS, there is always a chance that innocent civilians will be killed.

Before I get any howls of outrage I'm not equating the US or the British actions against ISIS with the IRA bombing campaign.

05-30-2017, 01:12 PM	#155
tom8517 Privileged Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,065 Reputation: 14858	As I posted earlier, it was a vicious little war. Plenty of atrocities to go around on all three sides, if you can count the security forces and the loyalist gangs as separate. The UDR in particular were more or less the UDA in a Government issued uniform. Whether or not one agrees with the goals, there is a difference in a guerilla war where armed soldiers and police were the targets as opposed to deliberately going after civilians. The IRA had the technical expertise to inflict mass civilian causality attacks on a scale that could have rivalled 9/11, they chose not to. That doesn't make them heroes, it was a pragmatic decision because they realized that such attacks would be met with revulsion by the nationalists of the north, and even more so by their supporters in the US. At Enniskilen in particular both the IRA and Sinn Fein saw major drop offs in support that they didn't recover for a very long time. The bombing campaign was always riskier than gun attacks precisely because it was so much harder to limit civilian causalities. Its a problem that even modern conventional forces face. If the US air force, or the RAF for that,matter bombs ISIS, there is always a chance that innocent civilians will be killed. Before I get any howls of outrage I'm not equating the US or the British actions against ISIS with the IRA bombing campaign. Last edited by tom8517; 05-30-2017 at 01:29 PM.