keesje
there is a lot of difference between a population of 2,500 people (the Falklands) and 100,000+
Most people in the Falklands hold down several jobs and they are still dependent on contract workers for many jobs (shades of the UAE)
From a defence perspective they couldn't hold off a small Company of the Argentinian armed forces without outside help
Now when the oil starts flowing in 2017/18 they may be able to hire Gurkhas (as Brunei does) etc but I doubt they'll ever be able to afford an SSN. In teh long term the best answer would be fro Argentina to back off and take the very long view (say 100 years) when The FI might want to join Argentina as some sort of self -governing teritory