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The Falklands Conflict Twenty Years On - Lessons for the Future (Paperback)
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The Falklands Conflict Twenty Years On - Lessons for the Future (Paperback)
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In April 1982 the military government of Argentina, under General
Leopoldo Galtieri, invaded the Falkland Islands, British sovereign
territory in the South Atlantic. This act precipitated a diplomatic
crisis and consequent British military action, action that resulted
in a short but intense conflict and led to Britain successfully
reclaiming the islands. In June 2002, exactly twenty years after
the cessation of hostilities between Britain and Argentina, many of
the participants in the 'Falklands Conflict', as it became known,
came together at a major international conference. This conference,
held at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and organized jointly
by RMA Sandhurst and her sister institution Britannia Royal Naval
College, Dartmouth, aimed to re-examine the events of spring 1982
from the perspective that only twenty intervening years can bring.
The Conference mixed those who had participated in the events of
spring and early summer 1982, diplomats, politicians, civil
servants, soldiers, sailors and airmen, with historians, political
scientists and journalists. The result was a fascinating discussion
of the origins of the conflict, the political and diplomatic
response to the Argentinean action as well as illuminating accounts
of the military action to retake the islands, at every level of
command. This edited volume brings together the various papers
presented to the conference. These accounts and interpretations of
the conflict shed new light on one of the most interesting and
controversial episodes in recent British history.
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