![]() In 1992, there were 17,750 members of all British military forces taking part in the operation. The total climbed again to 10,500 after the intensification of the IRA use of barrack busters toward the end of the 1980s. By 1980, the figure had dropped to 11,000, with a lower presence of 9,000 in 1985. An internal British Army document released in 2007 stated that, whilst it had failed to defeat the IRA, it had made it impossible for the IRA to win through violence, and reduced substantially the death toll in the last years of conflict Number of troops deployedĪt the peak of the operation in the 1970s, the British Army was deploying around 21,000 soldiers. It waged a guerrilla campaign against the British military from 1970-97. The main opposition to the British military’s deployment came from the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Its role was to assert the authority of the government of the United Kingdom in Northern Ireland. ![]() ![]() After the 1998 Belfast Agreement, the operation was gradually scaled down. It was initially deployed at the request of the unionist government of Northern Ireland to support the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). Operation Banner was the operational name for the British Armed Forces‘ operation in Northern Ireland from August 1969 to July 2007.
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