THE GENTLE SAS

Frank Kitson

IN A most civilised interview with the Irish Times recently, three veteran members of the Special Air Service (SAS) presented a sanitised view of their regiment, claiming it had never engaged in a shoot-to-kill policy. Conspicuously absent from their account was any mention of the controversial Mobile Reaction Force (MRF). It was established in 1971… Read more »

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