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Originally Posted by Viking
”Also, Argentina realised that their Homeland was within range, and redeployed their air defence fighters to Northern Argentina, to defend against an attack which never took place.”
This is contradicted in the official text easily found in Wikipedia that states “
Argentine sources were originally the source of claims that the Vulcan raids influenced Argentina to withdraw some of its Mirage IIIs from Southern Argentina to the Buenos Aires Defence Zone.[26][27][28] This dissuasive effect was however watered down when British officials made clear that there would be no strikes on air bases in Argentina.[29”
I wasn't there so I don't know!
There is no doubt in my mind that the whole war was a sideshow from the junta to keep going for a few years more. But....what the h@ck is GB doing with an island this far far from the home land? Smacks of imperialism if you ask me! But off course you wont do that! 
Viking |
That doesn't contradict what I said at all!!
If you check the statistics of how many Argentinian aircraft were downed, and how many Sea Harriers were lost, it's fairly obvious that Argentina's Air Defence fighters weren't there much!
I agree with the 'sideshow' issue though. Galtieri needed to up his popularity at home, and as it happens so did our then Prime Miinister, who's name I like to forget.
As to imperialism, well we did have the largest empire in the history of the world in the dim and distant past, so we're not immune from imperialist thought, but the population of the Falklands consider themselves British, and the British tend to defend themselves.