Steven Taylor examines the British Army Air Corps’ current support role to the Police Service of Northern Ireland in the ongoing fight against terrorism.
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Operation Banner, the British Army’s peacekeeping mission in Northern Ireland during the conflict widely known as the Troubles, came to an end on July 31, 2007. Having been activated in summer 1969, to restore some form of order in the Province amid an outbreak of serious sectarian violence, it became the longest military campaign in the modern history of the British Army.
With the reduction of terrorism in Northern Ireland after the start of a peace process in the mid-1990s, Banner was immediately superseded by a new support role for the British Army, on a greatly reduced scale, to assist the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in its efforts to deal with continuing, small-scale terrorist activity.
