Belgrano - why the controvery?
Always intrigued me this one. Why was sinking one of the enemy combatants ships so controversial? As far as I know the exclusion zone was set up to state that any Argentinian ship in the zone would be...
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Alexius55 wrote: Belgrano's mission had nothing to do with the islands- again, rubbish. The person who wrote the article misunderstood the TEZ, and the fact that Belgrano was on the route from...
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taschoene wrote: Alexius55 wrote: Belgrano's mission had nothing to do with the islands- again, rubbish. The person who wrote the article misunderstood the TEZ, and the fact that Belgrano was on the...
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Hi PMN1, Like a few of the "oldies" I lurk regularly but don't post as much. It's not that I have a problem with the board, it's just that I'm busy and that I don't have a lot to say on some of the...
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Alisdair Gillespie wrote: However I am still confident that the sinking was lawful and that any "problem" is political. No question about it, Belgrano was a man-of-war of a belligerant power. She...
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With hindsight, would the members agree that the declaration of the TEZ was a abd idea, as it appears to have clouded the issues somewhat. Admiral Wooward was apparently annoyed about it as he hadn't...
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My understanding was that Britain wanted to localise the war, but only to the extent that it suited Britain's interests. The declaration of a TEZ, and not attacking targets on the mainland, were all...
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Obi Wan Russell wrote: With hindsight, would the members agree that the declaration of the TEZ was a abd idea, as it appears to have clouded the issues somewhat. .......................... No, it was...
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Alisdair Gillespie wrote: ............. Of course the Falklands was one of those wars where we were just getting used to the new era of journalisic reporting (not quite 24-hours but not far off it)....
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Dickon M wrote: ... As I remember it, Argentina and Chile were squared up - indeed Pinochet kept a lot of soldiers on the Argentine border, which meant that Argentina wasn't able to deploy as many...
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Alisdair Gillespie wrote: Hi PMN1, I'm glad someone saved what I wrote so I don't have to retype it(!) I stick by what I said. Legally there is no problem in what happened, the difficulty is that it...
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Bledlow - that's interesting, what you say. I'm sure I've read (and have definietly heard people say) that Argentina kept it's best soldiers on the Chilean border fearing an attack from Chile, and was...
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Yes, there were many conscripts, but the backbone of the force was the Argentinian Marines, and they were a long way from being conscripts, and arguably the best that Argentina had. They provided the...
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Dickon M wrote: Bledlow - that's interesting, what you say. I'm sure I've read (and have definietly heard people say) that Argentina kept it's best soldiers on the Chilean border fearing an attack...
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Dickon M wrote: ...Was there also a Cold War angle to this? It would have been easy for the Soviet Union to have played the anti colonial card, and come in to help their Argentine fraternal brothers...
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Note that the Russians are currently helping the Argies to claim our slice of the south pole cake too. Shipping them their apparently. There is a lot of tosh been written about Goose Green. The fact...
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Dickon M wrote: Bledlow - that's interesting, what you say. I'm sure I've read (and have definietly heard people say) that Argentina kept it's best soldiers on the Chilean border fearing an attack...
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CliffS wrote: There are also rumours that the Soviets offered to sink HMS Invincible to aid the Argentine war effort. No confirmation there - but the Soviets were unhappy with any suggestion of...
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kennym wrote: CliffS wrote: There are also rumours that the Soviets offered to sink HMS Invincible to aid the Argentine war effort. No confirmation there - but the Soviets were unhappy with any...
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I just read Vulcan 607 recently, so that must be it. Not the obvious place to find such a reference, and the index is shite.
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