The Falklands Conflict Twenty Years On (eBook, PDF)

Lessons for the Future
Redaktion: Badsey, Stephen; Havers, Rob; Grove, Mark

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134268566
• Artikelnr.: 42641391

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on the Contributors
Series Editor's Preface
Editor's Preface
List of Abbreviations and Glossary
Introduction: A Personal View
Part 1: The Falklands Conflict in History
1. The Impact of the Falklands Conflict on International Affairs
2. The Geopolitics of the Falklands Conflict
3. British High Command during and after the Falklands Campaign
4. The Falklands Conflict as a Media War
Part 2: The Falklands Conflict in Personal Memory
5. A View from the Centre
6. Crisis Management and the Assembly of the Task Force
7. An Argentinian Airman in the South Atlantic
8. Force Projection and the Falklands Conflict
9. The Land Campaign: A Company Commander's Perspective
10. An Experience with the Commando Logistic Regiment Royal Marines
Part 3: The Falklands Conflict in Wider Perspective
11. 'War Cabinetry': The Political Direction of the Falklands Conflict
12. The United Nations Security Resolution 502
13. 'The Empire Strikes Back'? The Commonwealth Response to the Falklands Conflict
14. War Culture: The Royal Navy and the Falklands Conflict
15. The 'Logistics Miracle' of Ascension Island
16. Invoking Munich
Expiating Suez: British Leadership
Historical Analogy and the Falklands Crisis
Part 4: Lessons of the Falklands Conflict for Future Military Operations
17. The Impact of the Falklands Conflict on Defence Policy
18. Air Power: Strategic Lessons from an Idiosyncratic Operation
19. Falklands Conflict 1982 - The Air War: A New Appraisal
20. The Development of Joint Doctrine since the Falklands Conflict
Index