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Book Review: An Army of Tribes: British Army Cohesion, Deviancy and Murder in Northern Ireland
Christian TripodiRUSI Journal, 28 January 2019
UK Counter-terrorism, Counterinsurgency, Security Policy, UK, History, Securing Britain, Terrorism, Europe
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