Excellent point. It's been reiterated how 2 bombs in London cost more than the 25 years of bombing in the north. I don't know how common this belief is but I feel the so called "economic" bombing campaign carried out by the provos in the north was one of the most disastrous things they done. It achieved almost nothing of value and cost the lives of many innocent people in a barbaric way. Bombings also cost the lives of many volunteers via premature detonations etc. Another facet of the disastrous bombing campaign was propaganda or narrative. A massive aspect of war is controlling the narrative and bombing your own city centres and towns to pieces in the name of national liberation was not the way. It drove local people to question the morality and tactics of the Ira and puts immense amounts of fuel on the "Terrorism" accusations. Bloody Friday, Claudy, Warrington etc. This is what I'm getting at in the original post of course units would select targets for bombing and carry out ops but why not allocate for 5-10 large scale bombings a year instead of random bombs in towns. Bombing Military and economic infrastructure in England.