Put it this way,
I worked in Flight Planning & Route Bags at Lyneham circa 1977/8 as a young 19 y/o with a lack of airfield geographical knowledge.
All of a sudden, with a Labour government in power, Lyneham was dispatching numerous C130's to Ascension, we had to order the airfield plates in specially along with plates for, as I had been told was the alternate for Ascension, a place I had then never heard of called 'Port Stanley'!
When the Falklands happened, I was by then out of the military, in 1982Labour took a pop at Maggie and they were right, that invasion had been on the cards for so long but rather than listen she opted to cut costs by withdrawing the military presence from the area.
I hasten to add that only some 3 years ago I was in conversation with an Argentinian pilot who gave me advice never to trust any of their military pilots, when I questioned why he informed me that the invasion had been decided when their military leader, that geezer with white hair as I recall, had been drunk
