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	The Falkland Islands War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Falkland Islands are a group of islands in the south Atlantic.
		The government of the Falkland Islands administers the British dependent territories of South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands, and the Shag and Clerke rocks, lying from 700 to 2,000 miles (1,100 to 3,200 km) to the east and southeast of the Falklands.
		Consequently the Falklands, a distant and relatively unimportant group of islands were not in their focus despite their gaining independence from Spain.
	www.ability.org.uk /falklands-war.html (2165 words)

	Falkland Islands Book Shop - 1982 Falklands War
		June 1982, and in the middle of a South Atlantic winter, the Falklands War is at its height.
		The book provides new light on the way the Argentine forces were organized for war, the plans and reactions of the commanders, the sufferings of the soldiers and the shame and disillusionment of defeat.
		A naval task force was despatched from Britain to reclaim the islands from the invading troops, and the first British fighting in the Falklands took place on 1 May 1982.
	www.falklands.info /books/conflict.html (4404 words)

	Rest-of-World Naval Forces
		During the Cold War, Western naval forces focussed on countering the threat posed by the Soviet Union.
		During the Persian Gulf War, the 1200-1500 mines Iraq laid off Kuwait were largely responsible for the decision not to conduct an amphibious landing during the war.
		In the Falklands war, the Royal Navy, a highly experienced ASW force, was unable to completely clear its areas of operations of Argentine submarines.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/overview.htm (1651 words)

	Line of Departure Review of The Falklands War: 1982
		One was to reduce Falkland Islanders' level of citizenship to a level closer to that of Hong Kong's inhabitants.
		Their war was far from easy, as violent and savage as any infantryman's personal war could be.
		The Falklands War: 1982 does not have the plethora of advanced and specialized ammo present in Raging Tiger; there is high explosive, smoke and illumination and nothing else.
	www.wargamer.com /hosted/lineofdeparture/falklandswar.asp (4549 words)

	Falkland Islands Book Shop - Island Life
		Falkland Islanders were the first British people to come under enemy occupation since the Channel Islanders during the Second World War.
		Of all the books written about the Falklands War none captures the mood in so personal a way as "Memories of the Falklands" because it brings together the vivid recollections of 66 diverse individuals.
		They included several Falkland Islanders, some of the Commanders who directed the battles and front-line servicemen who fought them at close quarters; the wounded, the doctors, the politicians, diplomats and journalists.
	www.falklands.info /books/islanderswar.html (554 words)

	Falklands War
		The British won the diplomacy game by arguing that the Falkland Islanders were entitled to use the UN principle of self-determination and by appearing to be ready to compromise.
		The embarked force was 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines,(with attached units from the Parachute Regiment)under the command of Brigadier J. Thompson RM.
		The South Georgia force, Operation Paraquat, under the command of Major Guy Sheridan RM, consisted of marines from 42 Commando, a troop of Special Air Service (SAS) and Special Boat Service (SBS) troops who were intended to land as reconnaissance forces for an invasion by the Royal Marines embarked on the RFA Tidespring.
	www.fact-index.com /f/fa/falklands_war.html (3330 words)

	The Falklands/Malvinas War, Its Causes and Consequences, and Proposed Ideas for a Negotiated Settlement
		This is the root of the 1982 war: the overtaking by force of a legitimate established government which had been recognized by both England and the United States.
		Almost everyone was employed either by the Falklands Islands Company of by the Government.” This had bred, in Shackelton’s words “a lack of confidence and enterprise at the individual and community level, and a degree of acceptance of their situation which verges on apathy” (34).
		The British have spent billions of dollars in the war, they have shed their blood to retain the islands, have made some major investments there and are spending hundreds of millions of dollars per year to defend and sustain them.
	www.falklands-malvinas.com /martinez.htm (8142 words)

	Falkland Islands PSYOPS
		The Falkland Islands are approximately 8000 miles from Britain and the only major island group in the South Atlantic, about 300 miles east of Argentina and the continent of South America in the Strait of Magellan.
		Air Force Commander and junta member Brigadier General Lami Dozo was the least enthusiastic proponent of the Falklands war, but his pilots probably did the best job of all the Argentine services.
		He was an embarrassing prisoner of war, as he was wanted for questioning by several nations in connection with the disappearance of their citizens while in government custody on the Argentine mainland years earlier.
	www.psywar.org /falklands.php (9336 words)

	The Sea War in the Falklands: The Royal Navy and Argentine Armada Fought for Control of the South Atlantic
		The naval war in the Falklands was characterized by a David and goliath struggle between what was one of the most modern fleets in the world versus what was seen as a backward third world fleet.
		A former US Naval cruiser that had seen combat at Pearl Harbor, the 13,645 ton Belgrano was sent to the bottom appropriately by a pair of 1940's era Mk8 torpedoes on May 2nd with 368 Argentine sailors perishing.
		In 2004 it was disclosed by the MoD that some British naval vessels were sent to fight the Falklands War carrying nuclear weapons although their use was not considered.
	militaryhistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/the_sea_war_in_the_falklands_ (830 words)

	Battles of Coronel and the Falklands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On the outbreak of war in August 1914, the Royal Navy established a network of cruiser squadrons around the world, supported by the French in the Mediterranean, and by the Japanese in the Pacific.
		The Battle of the Falklands (8 December 1914) was a series of duels, in which Invincible and Inflexible sank Scharnhorst and Gneisenau; Glasgow and Cornwall sank Leipzig; Kent sank Nurnburg.
		But the point of seapower is to concentrate superior force where and when you need it, and to deny the enemy command of the sea.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/j0700000.htm (491 words)

	Falklands-Malvinas Forum - Chronology
		With British authorization to exploit his two-year contract, aboard the naval ice-breaker Almirante Irizar Argentine scrap dealer C. Davidoff visits South Georgia to inspect some purchases and plan the dismantling of the equipment of a former whaling station.
		Argentine forces, led by Gral Menendez, surrender in Port Stanley.
		Britain formally declares and end to hostilities, and the two-mile exclusion zone established around the islands during the war is replaced by a Falklands Protection Zone (FIPZ) of 150 miles.
	www.falklands-malvinas.com /falklands/chronolo.htm (603 words)

	Falklands War, 1982
		Falkland Islands War, 1982, by Ralph Zuljan (On War.Com)
		Battles of the Falklands Islands War, 1982, by Gordon Smith (Naval History.Net).
		Falklands Conflict, the View from Plymouth, by Steve Johnson.
	www.regiments.org /wars/20thcent/82falkis.htm (348 words)

	Argentine Armed Forces - Falklands War 1982 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is from these, that the assault commandos or Buzos Tactico and the landing force of some 800 men of the 2nd Marine Infantry Battalion are drawn.
		The Army (with the Marines) will employ on the Falklands, Panhard armoured cars, 105 and 155mm artillery, 20mm, 30mm and 35mm AA guns, and Roland, Tigercat and Blowpipe SAM's.
		As the British Task Force heads south, the FAA transfers many of its aircraft to southern bases and by the time the war is over has lost
	freespace.virgin.net /gordon.smith4/F17argforces.htm (703 words)

	NAVAL-HISTORY.NET
		Naval history of World War 1, 2 and the Falklands War, including warship and merchant ship losses
		In 2003, Guernsey Post issued a stamp bearing a painting of HMS Charybdis as well as Hunt-class escort destroyer HMS Limbourne, torpedoed at the same time (by T-type small destroyers, not E-boats as often described).
		"U-boats at War" in "Battle of the Atlantic"; "British Submarines" in "Royal Navy in the Mediterranean" etc.
	www.naval-history.net (998 words)

	PSYOP OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS WAR
		War in the Falklands says that after surrounding the Argentine troops occupying Port Stanley, Royal Marine Captain Roderick Bell and an SAS colonel (code-name “Reid”) broadcast in Spanish starting 6 June appealing to them to surrender before more blood was shed:
		The British had sailed of to war without careful preparation, and some units were stationed on different naval crafts, had left sections behind, or were without their supplies.
		had been recaptured by the British it was announced that Argentine special forces had retired into the island's interior, from whence they would continue to fight - and this, in one of the cruelest environments on Earth.
	www.psywarrior.com /Falklands.html (8818 words)

	Falklands Index
		By using Britain's Small Wars copyright material without permission, some authors and publishers are not only taking credit falsely for their work, they are dishonoring British forces and their achievements.
		While we do not have the resources to 'police' the use of our material nor pursue costly litigation, we usually give permission freely to those who approach us to quote passages from our pages for their use.
		The first full account of the most ambitious British bombing raid since the Dambusters: the dramatic Vulcan attack on Port Stanley airfield at the start of the Falklands War When the Argentinian forces invaded the Falklands on 2 April, 1982, it took the British government under Margaret Thatcher completely by surprise.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /Falklands/index.html (349 words)

	World War One - The Maritime War
		Flags, searchlight and semaphore were the established means of communication, but wireless (ie radio) had a major impact on the war at sea.
		Orders-of-battle, descriptions, commentary on the Naval Actions of the War (as well as other discreet events) and the campaigns to which they belong.
		Anglo-Japanese Naval Cooperation, 1914-1918, (an outside link) by Dr. Timothy D. Saxon, in the Winter 2000 issue of the Naval War College Review, describes in detail the contribution of Japan to the Allied Powers.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/n0000000.htm (2260 words)

	Falklands War
		"Battle of the Falkland's War" heads the list of recommended British-published books, described as "a very useful and detailed guide to the day-by-day development of the war", Argentine Army journal "Soldados", April 2000
		"contributed tremendously to my knowledge of the war", Francois Heisbourg, Director, The International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
		(as the) campaign was actually very complicated", Armed Forces
	www.naval-history.net /NAVAL1982FALKLANDS.htm (72 words)

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