OK, so this is a spot of fun, a quick and dirty Yuletide Top 10 of things from the sweety shop we might like to purchase to improve the security of the Falkland Islands against an aggressive and resurgent Argentina. Ordinarily, Numbers 1, 2 and 3 would be a political backbone, more of what we already have and lots more [...]
Don’t they know its bloody Christmas and people have others things to do? It is with a rather inconvenient sense of timing that Argentina continues to rattle their dull sabre at the Falkland Islands. The latest diplomatic effort which is part of an escalating campaign to ratchet up the tension is the orchestration of an agreement between Brazil, Argentina and [...]
We have discussed the ‘defencibility’ of the Falkland Islands and how the defences sit within an escalating scale that matches risk levels but the issue seems to crop up at regular intervals. The last post that I detailed the situation was here The Daily Telegraph started the latest wailing and gnashing of teeth with a story about Argentina stopping Spanish [...]
I have been following Brad’s 15 part look at the Falklands conflict over at Bring the Heat – Bring the Stupid. It is always interesting to see other perspectives and Brad has delivered an excellent overview that doesn’t dissapoint. Get yourselves over there and have a read, you definately won’t be dissapointed. http://xbradtc.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/the-naval-war-in-the-falklands-conclusion/ The entire series of posts may be [...]
It really is difficult to avoid cynicism when observing the flow of news stories. Right on cue, after Robert Gates delivered his stinging rebuke to us European pacifists comes a warning about naval resources and with a certain inevitability, the Falkland Islands are raised. Of course, it’s an opportunity too good to miss isn’t it, the defense secretary of your [...]
NATO has been a most successful military defence alliance but in seeking to move away from old fashioned territorial defence to defence at arms length its very clear mission has become blurred. Instead of a military alliance with a very clear purpose and significant support it has now become synonymous with dubious overseas military adventurism. In his parting shot the [...]
Some interesting comments on other blogs and in posts on Think Defence about being able to defend and/or retake the Falkland Islands from an Argentine attack and invasion. The Falkland Islands and surrounding smaller ones are sovereign territory, we have a clear obligation and mandate to protect them from aggression. Any operation there would not be a war of choice [...]
Spurred on by Daves excellent post about WWII coastal defences I thought a dip into the history books was in order, it’s been some time since I did anything on matters of ‘yesterday’ but there are so many worthy subjects its hard to decide what to cover. Having read this post at Snafu the subject of merchant ships being used [...]
In our previous post on the US reaction to the latest Falklands Islands we pondered on the fact that the UK has 10,000 service personnel in Afghanistan and this deployment has been ongoing for several years at a very high cost in blood and treasure. And yet despite this, the State Department and Hilary Clinton could not have done more [...]
There is a great deal of debate on the nature of our political and strategic relationship with the EU, NATO, the Commonwealth and individual nations. One of the fundamental principles of UK defence and security strategy is the recognition that large scale operations will always be conducted in conjunction with allies. What characterises this type of large scale expeditionary operation [...]
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