The Falklands War was a two-month skirmish fought in 1982 between Argentina and Great Britain in which Great Britain stole back the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands that Argentina had just stolen back from Great Britain and which Great Britain had stolen from Spain five hundred years before that.
This splendid little war was basically a South Atlantic naval battle with Britain's Royal Navy on one side and the Argentine Navy and Argentine Air Force on the other. The root cause of The Falklands War was not so much a dispute over territory as it was the refusal of a Latin American nation to continue looking up to a bully nation like Great Britain while it, in turn, looked down its nose at the rest of the world.
This was yet another Imperial War fought and won by Great Britain who, once again, came out smelling like a victorious rose while the rightful owners of yet another British territorial trophy came out smelling like rat bastard, thieving, third-world ingrates who never knew how good they had it under the thumb of Her Majesty the Queen.
This splendid little war was basically a South Atlantic naval battle with Britain's Royal Navy on one side and the Argentine Navy and Argentine Air Force on the other. The root cause of The Falklands War was not so much a dispute over territory as it was the refusal of a Latin American nation to continue looking up to a bully nation like Great Britain while it, in turn, looked down its nose at the rest of the world.
This was yet another Imperial War fought and won by Great Britain who, once again, came out smelling like a victorious rose while the rightful owners of yet another British territorial trophy came out smelling like rat bastard, thieving, third-world ingrates who never knew how good they had it under the thumb of Her Majesty the Queen.
