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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Who is going to fight it?
We have no aircraft carriers at present and when we do we will have to borrow some planes to put on those carriers..we are cutting naval,army and RAF staff as well as in hardware.. Argentina have also been forced to make cutbacks in their military.
There will just be a war of rhetoric but not of armaments.  |
i have no idea if britain can fight a war against argentina
but it was defence cut in the uk the encoruged argentina to start this war, a mistake then and now
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Originally Posted by Chris
Argentina's military spending is almost the smallest in South America and its infrastructure and equipment has had little in the way of upgrades since 1983.
Despite our own spending cuts, the UK's military is technologically far more advanced than it was in the early 1980s and there is a lot more hardware deployed to the Falklands also. Even if they fancied having a go, Argentina couldn't get near enough to the islands to land on them.
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what if the other south americans join in, they back argentinas claim