دانلود کتاب مختصری بر جنگ فالکلند – تاریج ارتش مدرن بریتانیا

2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. For much of the world it was and probably is still regarded as a minor spat between two countries whose governments were under great pressure at home. However, for the UK and Argentine governments and their peoples the dispute leading to war was a significant affair and a notable point in the history of both countries. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Argentine counterpart, the head of the military Junta General Leopoldo Galtieri, both faced immense political pressure at home, and the small set of islands in the South Atlantic, the British Colony nearly 8,000 miles from the UK yet a mere 300 miles from the Argentine mainland became the full focus of their attention. For both, it became a matter of principle to prove to their people that their claim to the Falkland Islands was just and was worthy of war. From the moment Argentine ‘scrap metal dealers’ landed without authority on South Georgia followed two weeks later by their soldiers landing near Stanley, the feisty British Prime Minister was never going to back down on this breach of international law. The Falklands were British and that principle was worth protecting by whatever means available.