Operation: Armageddon

67th Tigers

Banned
For those interested in such things, in 1969 the Irish government conducted preparations for the invasion of the United Kingdom's province of Northern Ireland. Had Operation: Armageddon gone ahead, it would have brought the HMG and the Dublin government to a state of war. Being a territorial invasion of a NATO member by a foreign power it may also have triggered the NATO declaration of war in the Republic of Ireland.

Thoughts?
 
For those interested in such things, in 1969 the Irish government conducted preparations for the invasion of the United Kingdom's province of Northern Ireland. Had Operation: Armageddon gone ahead, it would have brought the HMG and the Dublin government to a state of war. Being a territorial invasion of a NATO member by a foreign power it may also have triggered the NATO declaration of war in the Republic of Ireland.

Thoughts?

Ireland is smashed flat in a few days, even without any other NATO countries getting involved
 
Says it all right there in the wiki link from the planner's own analysis:

'The army's planners accepted that it had "no capability to engage successfully in conventional, offensive military operations against the security forces in Northern Ireland". While the aim was to protect the Catholic minority from loyalist mobs, "unconventional operations" would also target Belfast docks, Aldergrove airport, the BBC studios and key industries. Conventional operations would involve company strength groups occupying the Catholic parts of Derry and Newry.However the planners also accepted that with 2,136 troops at combat readiness, its numbers were insufficient. The operation would leave the Republic exposed to "retaliatory punitive military action by United Kingdom forces".'
In short, the attempted rape of a killer bee hive comes to mind as an analogy.
 
Maybe instead of invasion they could have just supplied the Catholics in Northern Ireland with a steady stream of arms and munitions as well as secretly training IRA forces and provding clandestine support via sabatoge and the like?
 
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