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Lessons of the Falklands
At the middle of March this year, most people would have identified the Falkland Islands as a mere Icy speck In the South Atlantic, somewhere to the West of South America and to the north of Cape Horn. Indeed an unfamiliar backwater where the penguins outnumber the humans by several thousand to one. Within two weeks of the middle of March, a battle fleet of unrivalled proportion by postwar standards was setting sail to do battle in the South Atlantic, a nation up to that time an ally of Great Britain and a regular purchaser of British weaponry.
As this is written the battles are being fought, men are dying and the remote, almost unknown, colonial backwater will be changed for all time.
Where does this leave the folk who consistently denigrate the need for modern, well equipped defence forces, indeed the purveyors of the ‘No Threat For Fifteen Years’ brigade? Where are they now? If I, or any writer on defence matters had even hinted in our previous issue that England would be fighting a major sea battle with a South American nation in the Atlantic within a few weeks then I would be swiftly committed. Yet it happened.
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