Lessons from the Falklands Crisis

Lessons from the Falklands Crisis

04 Apr 25
Posted by: Guy Liardet
14 minutes, 43 seconds read
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A political-military retrospective on the Falklands War and some lessons for future conflict. Reproduced from the NR’s archives, originally published in October 1982 [70/4, p. 252]. A 15 minute read.

The unexpected In principle, there are no new lessons from the Falklands. It remains another twelve-inches-to-the-foot example of the political utility of sea power. That it happened to the British suddenly and out of a clear sky at about the same time as the 1981 Defence Review is coincidental, but it does not materially affect the truths of maritime strategy, truths which the United Kingdom will continue to ignore at its peril. There are those who will say that the Falkland Islands crisis was so unusual that no defence policy conclusions should be drawn. It was highly atypical; the venue of…

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