In 1982, the Argentine army deployed troops from a couple of Jungle Regiments to the Falklands. These poor sods had only their jungle kit and were totally unprepared for the bitter cold of the Falklands. The Brits, on the other hand, WERE prepared. Royal Marine Commandos had just finished a NATO exercise in Norway and when they returned to the UK, they were alerted to ship out to the South Atlantic and still had their Arctic kit. At the time in Jeddah, the British and Argentine embassies shared a common wall, and the two ambassadors were best of buds. The hostilities drove a wedge between them.
At the time I was following the story pretty close.
I would meet with two friends for coffee, and we would all buy a different newspaper to read and share, one of the friends was an ex-WWII Brit commando, so he was well interested.