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3 days ago · SAS patrols conducted long-term, covert cross-border surveillance operations and ambushes code-named Operation Claret, often recruiting local tribesmen to act as trackers, guides, and intelligence gatherers.
- Alexander Alderson
Jun 28, 2024 · The SAS and other British special forces have been involved in covert operations in 19 countries in the last decade. Some of these include Nigeria and Mali, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, the Philippines, as well as Ukraine.
Jun 28, 2024 · The SAS’s operations in Northern Ireland were a defining moment in the history of special forces warfare. The close-quarter battles and guerilla warfare tactics employed by both sides shaped the development of both special forces and resistance methods.
3 days ago · SOE occasionally carried out operations with direct military objectives, such as Operation Harling, originally designed to cut one of the Axis supply lines to their troops fighting in North Africa. They also carried out some high-profile operations aimed mainly at the morale both of the Axis and occupied nations, such as Operation ...
Jul 1, 2024 · Airbus is to take over part of the Spirit AeroSystems operation in Belfast. Spirit is Northern Ireland’s most significant manufacturing employer, with about 3,500 staff. Airbus is taking control...
Jun 15, 2024 · Chief Superintendent Jon Boutcher and Operation Kenova’s first report on Agent Steaknife aka Freddie Scappaticci, has now, surprisingly, been approved by the British Cabinet Office without redactions or changes. It is now being considered by the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) of Northern Ireland.
Jun 10, 2024 · In January 1976 it was D squadron who where deployed to Northern Ireland, a series’s of operations between 1976-1977 led to the killing of two IRA men (Peter Clearly and Seamus Harvey) and the arrest of several more, British Army officers regarded the work of the SAS at this time a success.
