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Military Intervention in Britain

01 January 1991

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Military Intervention in Britain
libdoc March=1992

From the Gordon riots to the Gibraltar incident

Author: Babington, Anthony
Publisher: Routledge 1991, pp242, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Keywords: Military, Northern Ireland, IRA, riots, Strikes

"The military is supposed to stand aside from British society.
Only
when soldiers are called on to act `in the aid of the civil
power',
can they intervene. But Judge Anthony Babington shows in this
book
that from the earliest times to the present the British have
relied
on the military for the preservation of law and order, as the
army
has been called in to deal with riots, the dislocation resulting
from
strikes, the disturbances in Northern Ireland and the fight
against
terrorism, which culminated in the dramatic killing of three
unarmed
members of the IRA in Gibraltar." (Publishers text)

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