The Falklands Conflict

The Falklands Conflict

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On April 30th 1982 British armada of 44 warships, 45 merchant vessels, 3 SSN submarines, 2 troop brigades of 10,000 men, 28 Sea Harriers and 14 RAF GRE Harriers fighter jets onboard 2 aircraft carriers arrived near two rocky islands in the South Atlantic; 13000 km away from Britain, 400 km off the coast of Argentina. Their families, back home, were given fabricated news and carefully planned media campaign that had put a dishonorable spot on the British side of the event.   However, the soldiers were fighting for a land that rightfully belongs to Britain; they were liberating British citizens from a foreign invader; they were a democratic nation defending itself, protecting democratic morals, and world peace.
A war between Britain and Argentina had erupted because of the long ongoing dispute over the Falkland Islands, a sheep colony of 1800 habitats which very few people in the world knew about…until the spring of 1982. It was a war of new high tech weaponry, politicians, propaganda, nationalism and stubbornness of both countries; but most importantly it was a war where nearly 2000 people died. British soldiers were slayed while fighting so far from home for two rocks in the sea that they never even heard about. Argentine men were ordered by a crazed fascist dictator to fight and die for causes that could have been resolved diplomatically. It was an unnecessary war. It wasn't worth billions of dollars and hundreds of wrecked lives. War is hell…no war is unpreventable, no war is just, war should be the absolutely last resort. But once the shots are fired and all diplomacy fails, there is no turning back. That is exactly the situation Britain was in on the day British government received news that Argentinean troops invaded British land, captured garrisoned British soldiers, placed British citizens under house arrest and raised Argentinean flag over a last outpost of a forgotten British empire.
This paper will deal with British side of the conflict, since...