Originally Posted by SASless
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and did not provide a valuable contribution no matter how you want to spin it.
Not the view that Admiral Woodward takes (see the Institute for Contemporary British History 'Falklands Witness Seminar', pub. 2003 by SCSI)...
Admiral Leach (also at the seminar) expressed a similar view, although he isn't quoted in the publication.
The whole point of the Vulcan raid was that it had an effect (before the word 'effect' became a piece of jargon) that supported the overall effort.
Woodward rejects the notion usually put forward that the raid was merely the RAF trying to get in on the act, and the comments of the then-CAS (from the same source, and which Woodward endorsed) show clearly that the whole purpose was to provide support for the overall effort to retake the islands.
The point is that the Argenitines
didn't do an analysis and withdrew assets out of range of the Falklands as a result of the raid. Obviously not war-winning, but not quite the utter waste of fuel a certain SHAR driver/author later suggested...