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The definitive book (from the Republican view) is The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan. The first edition came out long ago, he has updated it with new material each time it has been republished.

I recently finished Capturing Jonathan Pollard. Pollard is sitting in a federal prison for the next 20 years for selling over 400,000 pages of documents to Israeli intelligence. It's author was a former NIS operative.

If you get into military strategy, pretty much check out anything by Sam Sarkesian, a retired poli sci prefessor at Loyola University. His best ones are/were America's Forgotten Wars: The Counterrevolutionary Past and Lessons for the Future and The New Battlefield: The United States and Unconventional Conflicts. He's a big proponent of the U.S. low-intensity warfighting strategy, intially developed as a counterinsurgency alternative to combat the FSLN (Sandinistas) in Nicaragua in the 1980s.

And of course the Naval War College Review is always nice. Reading war planners discuss the viability of a forward maritime strategy in the North Sea with the aim of launching nuclear decapitation strikes on the Kremlin is a real hoot.