Harry McCallion

Explores the development of modern mercenary forces from the British SAS led deniable operation in Yemen in late 1960's right up to today's War in Ukraine. Meer

When British troops first deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969 to keep apart rioting factions of loyalists and nationalists, they could not have known that they were being drawn into the longest campaign in the British Army's history, a battle against the threat of a new rising force - the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Meer