Long-range Interdiction and Reconnaissance Patrol

The Long-range Interdiction and Reconaissance Patrol (LIRP) is a newly established military unit of the Grand Alliance, formed during the closing days of the Fourth War to disrupt the True Horde's resource exploitation efforts in the Barrens of Kalimdor. Consisting predominantly of Quel'dorei Farstrider remnants, Theramore survivors and a handful of Kaldorei ex-Sentinels, the LIRP's mandate is to act semi-autonomously behind enemy lines without resupply to disrupt enemy troop and supply movements, terrorize civilian populations forcing the diversion of military assets to their protection, and to report on enemy troop concentrations, targets of value and strategic openings. They are, jurisdictionally, a sub-division of SI:7 rather than any formal branch of the Alliance miltiaries.
They have also served as a testbed for new technologies and theories of warfare. Drawing on experience gained during the Cold War of the Second Antebellum Period, the LIRP utilize ethanol and diesel-fueled motorcycles and trucks in addition to donkeys and horses. While this complicates their own supply chain, it offers unparalleled freedom of operation across long distances, and the proliferation of Goblin technology throughout Horde territories offers opportunities for scavenge and hostile-sourced resupply. They also incorporate mortar tactics into their everyday operations and, purportedly, utilize a number of repurposed Airforce machine-guns.
==Operational History==
===Fourth War===
====Involvement in War Crimes====
During their deployment in the Barrens during the Darkspear Rebellion and the Siege of Orgrimmar, LIRP units were reportedly involved in a number of civilian massacres, extrajudicial executions of True Horde POWs, and the torture of captured New Horde loyalists. Internal documents from embedded SI:7 operatives in the LIRP program confirm the account of at least two village massacres, numerous incidents of strategically unhelpful or even damaging POW execution or torture, and an incident of a LIRP unit engaging and massacring a refugee caravan making for Darkspear-held territory.
No members of the LIRP have been trialled or discharged from their units over the crimes, and the documents have been formally sealed and restricted to SI:7's upper command structure and LIRP unit commanders. The official stance is complete denial of any such offences, and it is believed internally to have been an inevitable consequence of forming the LIRP brigade out of Quel'dorei and Theramore remnant forces.
===Iron War===
==Equipment==
Category:SI:7
Category:Stormwind Military
Category:War Crimes
Category:Fourth War
Category:Special Operations Units