Fighting for Ireland?: The Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement
So much has been written about the Northern Ireland conflict that it is difficult to imagine anything new to say ... This book has sufficient novelty and quality to be a breath of fresh air.–Times Higher Education Supplement[Smith] has read copiously, and with great insight, the publications, statements and speeches of Republicans. He shows that the IRA is not the self-confident, single-minded organization that it and its analysts suppose it to be, but one that is chronically insecure, and wrcked by contadictory notions of what it stands for, and of how to achieve its ends'.–The EconomistExtensively researched, intellectually reasoned and plausibly articulated, Smith's work...brings to the study of republicanism a powerful analytical framework.... Other books, and there are many, acquire the status of also rans when placed alongside works of this calibre.–Irish Political StudiesIt is...a pleasure to find a book which examines the fundamental issue of the methods, aims and objectives of the Irish Republican movement, and does so from an unusual and thought provoking perspective.–Defense Analysis