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Old 7th Feb 2012, 07:31
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cokecan
 
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me too, because if we get to a stage where we're exchanging small arms fire with them then we've lost.

there's another infantry Coy on the Islands, but what keeps them at arms length is air power and GBFO radars. personally i think we'd defend them far better with more air power - another flight of Typhoons for a start, and a second of GR4's - and less ground force.

i think we also need to be careful about assuming that the force we currently have on the Islands is the deterant we think it is - perhaps what has kept them out so far has not been that they have been scared off by the deterant, but that Argentinas political leaders have not wanted to go down the road of conflict. if that has changed, and i think it has, then we should be less sanguine about our calculations of the effect our current force has on their political/military thinking.
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