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Originally posted by LDragonFire
Could we expect a repeat of the first war or would it expand?
Argentina insists that this time it will use peaceful means to press its case. “A military conflict is not on the horizon and they [the British] should not worry about that,” Victorio Taccetti, the Deputy Foreign Minister, said yesterday. He added: “They should know clearly that Argentina is not going to abandon this legitimate claim.”
Originally posted by jpmail
The big factor would be who moved on to the Island first. If it was the British the Argentinians are gonna have a very hard job taking that island if they tried.
If the Argentinians get there first they have nothing to compare with the resources Britian could pour in there so again it would be a battle of taking the high ground ports ect.
Originally posted by jpmail
They also had to buy all the ship killing missiles they could from the French who would have been happy to sell them to the Argentinians. I wonder if that would happen again.
Originally posted by ROBL240
any sudden overthrow of the islands again by Argentina wont be fought with weapons.
Originally posted by superrat
Geez, this is sort of like asking who would win a boxing match between two nuns. The British are Euro-pussies who pretty much surrender at the first sign of trouble and the Argentinians are South Americans who are lucky if they can figure out which end of the gun to fire. Aside from it's comic potential, nothing to worry about.
A battalion of US Marines would make short work of all of them in a couple of days.
Originally posted by antuk
and how on earth would 500 -1200 marines take on and defeat all of the personell on the Falklands and the entire Argentina millatry....
Originally posted by aristocrat2
A new Falklands War would be insane for the Argentines - utter suicide.
The British made it clear that we're not going all the way out there to fight again.
Instead, a nuclear submarine is parked permanently off the coast of the Falklands armed with 8 Trident nukes. It has been made very clear to the Americans and the Argentines, next time we won't be playing around with conventional weapons, we level 8 Argentine cities instantly if they come back again.
This is clearly documented in papers released from the early 1980's.