Chinese Vic is 1000% correct. Our underfunded, inadequately manned and grossly overstretched forces with their ageing and unreliable aircraft wouldn't have a cat in hell's chance of doing anything meaningful to increase the defence of the Islas Malvinas - and without in-theatre air dominance any shipborne reinforcement would be suicidal.
Besides, now that there is known to be no oil, since mad Maggie's plan to rape Antarctica of mineral wealth was thwarted by the rest of the world - and even trust-me-Tone surely realising that there are no diamonds down there, isn't it high time that Mission Creep Malvinas was, in fact, scaled down, not up??
[ 23 December 2001: Message edited by: BEagle ]</p>