Originally Posted by
Ninthace
The feedback I remember from those days was a brief from someone, whose credentials I cannot remember, who said the that after the Falklands a lot of midnight oil was burnt in the Kremlin. It seems that beforehand the Russians did not think we would or could, So when we did, they had to have a major rethink. It seems that they had underestimated just how determined, inventive and bloody minded the British can be.
And judging by Ukraine they haven’t learnt that lesson.