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Limited war, conflict and the politics of defence

Limited war and minor conflicts

Following the Russian Revolution, Kuban Cossacks fight with the Volunteer Army in the civil war.
New Zealand soldiers on battlefield in Korea.

Conflict in Ireland 1916-1977

Eamon de Valera strongly opposed the 1922 Anglo-Irish Treaty that brought about the partition of Ireland.
In 1969 two members of the Royal Green Jackets man a street barricade in Belfast during their first tour of duty in Northern Ireland.

Politics of defence

The former First World War battleship, HMS Iron Duke, was converted to a gunnery training ship during the 1930s.
A biplane takes off from an aircraft carrier in the 1930s.
A Royal Navy Blackburn Buccaneer S2B (XV157) on display at the 1966 Farnborough Airshow.
The 150-megaton thermonuclear explosion at Bikini Atoll on 1 March 1954 was one of a series of nuclear test explosions carried out by major powers in the 1950s.
The prototype of Britain's first nuclear shelter at Kingsdown, Kent in 1962.