THS, always worth remembering that the reports about Argentinas military being in a utter ****-state come from a single media source, and one hostile to Argentina.
its also worth remembering that their 'defence' journalists are probably as bad and as ill-informed as the vast majority of ours are, and that the original article was written in Spanish, not English, and therefore there may be errors in the translation of technical points and nuances.
yes, they probably are in a poor state, and yes, its obvious from the well publicided problem they are having with one of their ships being stuck in South Africa awaiting critical parts that they are having a short term cash flow problem, but that does negate them completely, or mean they will be in the same state in 3 months time. it also does not mean that we aren't being fed a line - one that we're gulping down like a tramp on chips.