Malvinas/Falklands War How Close To Defeat?-part02

STRICTLY HISTORICAL PURPOSES ONLY

The Falklands War started on Friday, 2 April 1982 with the Argentine invasion and occupation of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, and ended with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982. The war lasted 74 days, and resulted in the deaths of 255 British and 649 Argentine soldiers, sailors, and airmen, and three civilian Falklanders. It is the most recent conflict to be fought by the UK without any allied states and the only external Argentine war since the 1880s.

The conflict was the result of a protracted diplomatic confrontation regarding the sovereignty of the islands. Neither state officially declared war and the fighting was largely limited to the territories under dispute and the South Atlantic. The initial invasion was characterised by Argentina as the re-occupation of its own territory, and by the UK as an invasion of a British dependent territory.

Britain launched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Argentine Air Force, and retake the islands by amphibious assault. The British eventually prevailed and at the end of combat operations on 14 June the islands remained under British control. However, as of 2010 and as it has since the 19th century, Argentina shows no sign of relinquishing its claim. The claim remained in the Argentine constitution after its reformation in 1994.

The political effects of the war were strong in both countries. A wave of patriotic sentiment swept through both: the Argentine loss prompted even larger protests against the ruling military government, which hastened its downfall; in the United Kingdom, the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was bolstered. It helped Thatcher's government to victory in the 1983 general election, which prior to the war was seen as by no means certain. The war has played an important role in the culture of both countries, and has been the subject of several books, films, and songs. The cultural and political weight of the conflict has had less effect on the British public than on that of Argentina, where the war is still a topic of discussion.

Argentina

President Leopoldo Galtieri
Admiral Jorge Anaya
Vice-Admiral Juan Lombardo
Brigadier-General Ernesto Crespo
Brigadier-General Basilio Lami Dozo
Brigade-General Mario Menéndez
649 killed
1,068 wounded
11,313 taken prisoner
Losses:
1 cruiser
1 submarine
4 cargo vessels
2 patrol boats
1 spy trawler
25 helicopters
35 fighters
2 bombers
4 transports
25 COIN aircraft
9 armed trainers

United Kingdom

Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse
Rear-Admiral John Sandy Woodward
Major-General Jeremy Moore
Brigadier Julian Thompson
Commodore Michael Clapp
258 killed
777 wounded
115 taken prisoner
Losses:
2 destroyers
2 frigates
1 LSL landing ship
1 LCU amphibious craft
1 container ship
24 helicopters
10 fighters

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• Falklands
• Malvinas
• war
• 1982
• England
• Argentina
• united
• kingdom
• iran
• iraq
• vietnam

[elargentinounico1982]

@easy1355 keep laughing!!!!!!lollol!!!!!!!!!!­! it is predictable in the BIble your power will collapse it!!!!!!!!!!!

[elargentinounico1982]

@easy1355 hope a big tsunami blowns out your oil in the sky and push back the falklands to argentina .

[TheARMAProductions]

@xsf908 It was a calculated risk taken to scrap the carriers & GR7's until the new carriers come along in 2019 but we do not need carriers to defend the Falklands. We now have a military base there with enough assets to fend off any attack for the critical 72 hours it will take for us to deploy an infantry battle group/more Typhoons/GR4's etc

Any invader will get raped. They know this hence they don't attempt.

[nappy1905qqq]

Falklands are both Britains and Argentines territory ... Takeshima island is Japans territory not Korea ... Etorofu and Kunashiri islands are Japans territory not Russia

[xsf908]

Thanks to David Cameron today Royal Navy is nothing more then coastal defence force no carriers no harriers,

[sfgyugfdja]

Argentina could have had all these things in their favor but the Brits would still have won because that's what they do best.

[easy1355]

@28valkiria Me? a Moron, lol, do you need training on how not to use your caps lock.

The UK, the 4th richest and 4th most powerful country on earth, and Argentina, is..er..er, well, it's got nice looking mountains.

And, the kicking out bit, it's never going to happen, in your deluded world, of fantasies and fairies...

Mind you, it would be fun for you to try. Well, for us anyway.

Our two brand new Aircraft carriers are being built as we speak, and our fine Armed forces will be ready.

[28valkiria]

@easy1355 YOU ARE JUST AN IGNORANT MORON,2013 IS NEAR, AND WE HAVE NOTHING ??? HAHAHAHA YOU ARE A MORON ,THE PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT ARGENTINA AND HOW RICH IT IS, WE WILL GET READY WHEN WE KICK OUT THE ZIONIST.MALVINAS WAR TO BE CONTINUOUS

[easy1355]

@fraizer57 yep, you will be paying for burial of Argie soldiers, cos, it's obvious your shit, backward, third world, corrupt country wouldn't be able to do a fucking thing.

So, while we will drill and get oil, Argentina, will moan and whine, but be able to do fuck all.

And, if you do, we will humiliate you again, and this time we need to sink all of your ships.

Anyway, you don't represent your country at all... unless all your Countrymen are thick!

And it's The Falkands, cos we say it is.

[easy1355]

@28valkiria LOL.. bless, 1 2 3 and your back in the room.

Your country has nothing, a bit of fucking water, it's 3rd world, it's Armed forces the laughing stock of south America, well, maybe just Brits laugh at them.

Your right, this time, if you attack, we should wipe out Buenos Aires, and teach you Argies a lesson you will never forget.

Shit, is living in the fucking 3rd world, in South American, Argentina which is an embarrassing mess.

Time sure did prove me right.. we won.