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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan
Yes I did read that Chris.
Kymmy just has a bee in her bonnet, and really believes that we should risk the lives of our servicemen, rather than boost the defences of the Falklands, because she thinks that we can defend against a whole country's military with what we already have in the area.
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Nah, just swatted that bee... it kept cut/pasting erroneous data from out of date sites..
Argentine may have more man and may be closer but the logistics and public fear of putting even a small percentage of them onto an island three hundred miles away from their home base would preclude any attack happening or at very least give us one hell of a warning (weeks perhaps to see the build up) Which means that we can get men and equipment in the air on route as unlike 1982 the airport is in our hands and those currently on the ground can dig in around Mount Pleasant. 1982 worked not because we didn't think they would do it.. it worked as we didn't know they had left, we didn't know they had landed and we had extremely few ill equipped on the ground to defend against the initial landing, never mind having no typhoons or destroyers in that area at that point in time.