It was worse than that. They started a war without telling the Irish troops there were to expect an attack.
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The Irish DOD, never really decided whether a) they truly don't know what they are doing, or b) they do know and do it anyway...
And that was only one of the major battles the Irish fought in the Congo that everyone forgot/ignored, even when they were still using PreWW2 Amoured Cars on the operations.It was worse than that. They started a war without telling the Irish Irish troops there were to expect an attack.
Siege of Jadotville - Wikipedia
It was worse than that. They started a war without telling the Irish Irish troops there were to expect an attack.
Siege of Jadotville - Wikipedia
I mean sending poorly armed peacekeepers into danger with either ridiculously strict ROE or ridiculously vague ones is kind of the standard. Expecting soldiers with nothing more then a rifle and maybe a single full magazine a piece and with ROE that basically forbid them to fight even when directly attacked to face off against heavily armed militia's is kind of the norm
And sending them water in Petrol(gasoline) cans. Water was undrinkable due to petrol in the water.
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On the other hand bonus points for making water powered cars possible. Think of the environmental benefits!
Actually that's an M1 Carbine, the RUC was still using them in the 90's.
Photo 1975
I am not sure if they had the Ruger AC-556 carbine in 1969.
They might have had Sterling submachine guns and Ruger AC-556 and Ruger Speed-Six revolver.
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And to be perfectly honest I think that the Territorial Army in Northern Ireland, 107 (Ulster) Brigade, might well be larger and better equipped than any force the IDF can mobilise.
it does look like an M-1 carbine.
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In 1969 we had tons of WW2 veterans, Korean War veterans, Mau Mau in Kenya veterans, Malaysian Emergency and Konfrontasi veterans. I was only a year old but ten or eleven years later I saw the Remembrance Day parades and the WW2 veterans were in their fifties and still working, not anywhere close to retirement age.
I don't know, but they ran the Irish Defence Forces...
In any other nation at the time, holding off a force of 3000 with less than 200, and inflicting heavy casualties, would be considered a heroic act...It was worse than that. They started a war without telling the Irish troops there were to expect an attack.
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Question I suppose is was it the General Staff, or the DOD?
If the Government had supported them, then they ran the risk of people starting to ask questions over all the issues of the state of the DF which might mean having to actually invest in them... No Government of Ireland is going to want to do that.
Meanwhile appearing over Dublin on a regular basis, as Irish Government building disappear,
RUC 1961
Photo 1975
I am not sure if they had the Ruger AC-556 carbine in 1969.
They might have had Sterling submachine guns and Ruger AC-556 and Ruger Speed-Six revolver.
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Again, while it might amuse you, the UK Government isn't going to start bombing Dublin, it didn't really work out well long term for them the last time.
Alright I'll grant actual bombing is unlikely unless provoked, but low, slow overflights with full bomb bays and the doors open are another matter,
Why? The Irish military at any point is horrible outmatched, that's not in debate. The UK defeating the Army in the field, everyone just shakes their head at how suicidal the Irish Government is. Threatening or actually bombing the Capital of a nation that literally can't threaten the UK in any meaningful way... Well just remember the UK came to the table finally in 1922 because in part the Dominions and the US forced them to, threatening a massive civilian target when not needed given Anglo-Irish history seems like the possibility of an own goal like killing the leaders of the Rising.
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Given the state of some of the old buildings at the time much on the older buildings in Dublin would collapse. I wonder might a rebuilt Dublin become a high rise city.
It's unlikely to be necessary even in a situation where the Irish had went full crazy, but a bomber overflight that either shows that it could drop bombs and doesn't or drops paper as a message is a valid tactic to force people to the table without further loss of life.
You'd basically need somebody mind controlling the entire Irish government for it to be necessary though.