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To: HiTech RedNeck
Looks like they are bound and determined to get their nose bloodied a second time. Maybe they are hoping Bummer will lean on the UK

Sadly this would be the best time for the Argentinians to muck about. For one, I think that the leadership today is nowhere as strong as that under the Iron Lady. Secondly, while the weapons may be more lethal pound for pound (and obviously more technologically evolved), they simply do not have the logistics, the numbers or the efficacy of going halfway around the world as they once did. The UK has seriously cannibalized their military, and all the Argentines need to ensure is that the mistakes they made last time (some logistical errors, as well as some weapons being duds ...e.g. all those weapons that hit but failed to explode) are not present this time round.

The UK would not be able to do what they did then. For comparison purposes, France still could (both in terms of ability, and more importantly will). Great ....I mean Gelded Britain ...has truly lost its cajones!

14 posted on 01/19/2010 4:32:39 AM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: spetznaz
"Sadly this would be the best time for the Argentinians to muck about"

Buy a couple of Gotland class boats from the Swedish Navy. Or if they won't sell them to you buy a bunch of Kilo class boats from the Russians. No way the Brits would be able to park a carrier task force down there the way they did last time if there were AIP boats in the pool. And going up against the Kilos without land based air cover would be no picnic either.

15 posted on 01/19/2010 4:40:30 AM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: spetznaz

The vaunted US military hasn’t managed to win a war in Afghanistan (which is half way round the world) either.


29 posted on 01/19/2010 5:26:21 AM PST by Vanders9
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