Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh

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While certainly not the intent of this pre-9/11 book, it was difficult not to draw loose parallels between the indigenous/occupier dynamic described in Northern Ireland and those the US is wrestling with in Afghanistan (the guerrilla's exploitation of popular support for insurgent propaganda and operational assistance; the insurgents' use of improvised munitions; questionable counterinsurgent legal procedures; the self-imposed isolation of counterinsurgent military forward bases; the roles of intelligence and counterintelligence; etc).

It was then fitted with a red railway engine light to give it an authentic appearance by night on the railway lines, and of course, a large bomb loaded in the back of the hybrid-transit/train.

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This book presents a relatively balanced view of the situation in the north of Ireland throughout the 1970's to the 1990's and the role that the South Armagh IRA played in the conflict with the British Army and the RUC.

The sources Harnden has used have included past serving British Army soldiers, RUC personnel, ex-Spook turned decommissioning Czar John Grieve, and the late, ex-PIRA supergrass Eamonn Collins.