He took up his post in 1988 after a series of senior appointments in the Ministry of Defence and the Northern Ireland Office.
This strategy was outlined in an unpublished 1975 British strategy paper titled "The Way Ahead" produced by a committee of senior Army, RUC and intelligence officers, chaired by John Bourn, a Northern Ireland Office civil servant.
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