Bugfatty300
Buddha Squirrel
I'm wondering, in Winner's scenario, how the Argentine military would be able to confiscate/commandeer/buy and concentrate hundreds of fishing boats without anyone taking notice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_Falkland_Islands
The standing garisson is around 500 men, plus a light infantry company of local volunteers.
The airfield is large enough to land a hercules aircraft - so they had better capture it fast or neutralise it in some way if they don't want a rapid reaction force joining in the fight.
If they were going to do it, they would probably create a "peaceful re-occupation" fisherman's fleet, with armed soldiers on-board the ships. They would then probably either chuck their weapons overboard or launch an armed assault, depending on how it went.
I'm wondering, in Winner's scenario, how the Argentine military would be able to confiscate/commandeer/buy and concentrate hundreds of fishing boats without anyone taking notice.
I'm wondering, in Winner's scenario, how the Argentine military would be able to confiscate/commandeer/buy and concentrate hundreds of fishing boats without anyone taking notice.
I'm wondering, in Winner's scenario, how the Argentine military would be able to confiscate/commandeer/buy and concentrate hundreds of fishing boats without anyone taking notice.
C'mon, the Balkans haven't changed that much in the past 12 years. There's only one or two extra countries, that's all.Isn't it a little silly to use very outdated past results as benchmarks on how to draw borders?
It's a bit like drawing borders in the Balkans using data from the turn of the century.
Which, as I've already pointed out a couple pages before, was the original plan but the British Empire was defeated every time except for their 1833 attack on the Falklands as well as their interference in 1828 when they made Uruguay a separate country after Argentina had beaten the Brazilians. This is only a remnant, a leftover from all the British attempts at conquering Argentina.You know what would make this moot? How about just make Argentina a territory of the United Kindgom?
I'm wondering, in Winner's scenario, how the Argentine military would be able to confiscate/commandeer/buy and concentrate hundreds of fishing boats without anyone taking notice.
Trout are riverfish, silly Virote.They'll invent a new public holiday - National Trout-catching Day.
'Long number'? They should know by now that an Argentine number would start with 00-54 and recognise them more easily. Again, this is mostly the work of extremists.When their mobiles ring, the inhabitants of Port Stanley are learning to check caller ID carefully before answering. If it displays a "long number," meaning it might be from Argentina, they don't pick up. "It's intimidating to be woken in the night to someone shouting at you in Spanish," says Lisa Watson, editor of The Penguin News, the main and only newspaper of the Falkland Islands, the British Overseas Territory claimed by Argentina as Las Malvinas.
The angry calls are coming with the advent of the 30th anniversary of the 1982 war with Great Britain that started with the occupation of the islands by Argentine military forces on April 2 that year. That 74-day military engagement left more than 900 dead and some 1,800 wounded. Argentina lost the war but it has not forgotten it's historic claim to the islands that lie a tantalizingly close 300 miles off its coast. The islands have been under British control since 1833 when a British naval squadron arrived to oust the Argentine authorities there. Argentina claims that it inherited the islands from Spain after it gained independence in 1816 but Britain says it had prior jurisdiction through an 18th century settlement.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2106143,00.html
Trout are riverfish, silly Virote.
the sea trout shows anadromous reproduction, migrating to the oceans for much of its life and returning to freshwater only to spawn.[2] Sea trout in the UK and Ireland have many regional names including sewin (Wales), finnock (Scotland), peal (West Country), mort (North West England) and white trout (Ireland).
except for their 1833 attack on the Falklands
Given the United States' recent track record, odds are that you'd just get yourself bogged down in an unwinnable ten-year war against insurgent penguins.
The last time we invaded one of your little commonwealth members you cried and stomped your feet a little. I doubt this would be any different. A lot has changed since 1812.
I guess you must have been on hallucinogens during the eighties.The last time you invaded one of our "little Commonwealth members", didn't they end up sacking and burning your capital to the ground?
if Argentina attacked could the UK if they really desired activate the NATO mutual defense pact or does it have to be an invasion of the country proper and not just a territory? Obviously the UK wouldnt need to in order to stomp Argentina's little army into the ground just moreso a curiosity question.