Military Resilience in Low-Intensity Conflict by Suissa Rachel;Suissa Rachel;

Author:Suissa, Rachel;Suissa, Rachel; [Suissa, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1466971
Publisher: Lexington Books

1971–1994

The orders of the political echelon were issued in coordination with the senior military echelon and included:

The enemy should be identified and the reasons for his/her existence clarified.

Resources and manpower should be coordinated at all levels of warfare alignment in the field.

The enemy should be overcome and weakened tactically.

The enemy should be isolated and frustrated by every political and military method.

The enemy should be destroyed.

Full control of the army in Northern Ireland coordinated with the directives of the political echelon, which operated as a regulator of military operations via political activity. This included orders to decrease or increase the warfare profile, while the two echelons agreed that a political solution was more practical than a conflict solution. Military solutions were only meant to gain time until convenient conditions were established for Britain to reach a political solution. Put differently, both the political and the military echelons viewed military activities as a means that would force the IRA to admit its defeat and announce a cease fire as an opening point for the possibility of a political solution. And that is what occurred.

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