What angers/upsets me with this thread and the Guardian article is the way they try to represent it as all being down to the failings of one or two men, as opposed to being the result of a series of events, including:
-No organic AEW
-Limited air defence assets
-Lack of experience in using aircraft as task force assets
-Type 42s having old 965 radar (excessive beamwidth = clutter and ground wave reflections - mentioned in the BOI report)
-The Argentines having two Type 42s of their own so they could develop tactics and techniques like lobe pecking
-South Atlantic weather playing havoc with radars and false returns
...and so on.
Good post. Those with their own agendas, and those that don't understand war, will ignore it. Such in the internet/media world.