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during the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969 Irish Prime Minster Jack Lynch ordered the Army to prepare a plan for possible incursions, known as "Exercise Armageddon"

The plan called for units of specially trained and equipped Irish commandos to infiltrate Northern Ireland and launch guerilla-style operations against the Belfast docks, Aldergrove airport, the BBC studios and key industries. The campaign would start in Belfast and the northwest, so as to draw the bulk of security forces in Northern Ireland away from the border areas and turn their attention to the guerilla campaign. The Irish Army would then invade with four brigades operating in company-strength units to occupy the Catholic areas of Derry and Newry, and attack any remaining security forces in those areas.

over all the military made it overly clear that was a bad idea and most likely undoable, but what if Jack Lynch pushed by Kevin Boland and Neil Blaney went for it and tried "Exercise Armageddon"
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