The way we dealt with the IRA? So give them a special government and put them in power then?Lol, fair comment. I was referring more to the combination of intelligemce gathering operations and direct military action taken. The Northern Ireland problem was far more complex than this. The British government weren't afraid to take direct action against identified players back then.
They were very selective of their targets. Martin McGuiness is a torturer and murderer. Thomas 'Slab' Murphy was IRA Chief of Staff, responaible for plotting many bomb attacks.
Insurgencies are not solved through mi