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South Atlantic and Antarctica: the New Imperial context
Antarctica is the least populated continent but it has been the cause of some very interesting geopolitics. One of the last areas to feel the impact of the New Imperialism, the politics of the south Atlantic have also contributed to regional rivalry and the 1982 war between Argentina and the United Kingdom - Britain´s last imperial conflict?
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2. Origins of the 1982 Conflict
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 EL Malvinense A good place to start for the long term roots to the conflict. Bilingual site produced by Alejandro/Alexander Jacobo Betts, born on the islands, but who moved to the mainland just before the 1982 conflict. Betts was an employee of LADE, the Argentine national airline company on the island before the war.
Diplomatic/Legal background
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Malvinas y la diplomacia multilateral, 1945-1981:
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Malvinas y la diplomacia bilateral anglo-argentina, 1945-1981:
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Las relaciones anglo-argentinas después del conflicto de Malvinas. Julio de 1982 a julio de 1989:
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Political Background
 Argentina and
South American Military Regimes -
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3. General accounts of the war
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 Falklands War Also see the Spanish (more limited) version:
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 Guerra de las Malvinas from Wikipedia. Two excellent, detailed and well cross-referenced articles. Very thorough
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Islas Malvinas. Site of the Argentine infantry (infanteria ejercito). Details of troop origins, locations, battles and decorations
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 Guerra de Malvinas A very full narrative by Marcial Sorazabal (93 pages) covering events of the war, causes and conclusions. Pictures and diagrams. Intriguing final sections on the reaction to war. The bibliography used is interesting. By the same author, (but not a pdf) see
Guerra de Malvinas issued by Monografias.com a web site hosting (mainly student) essays
- BBC: despite the similarity of the
first two titles, each has different articles. both are worth looking at for background, interviews and analysis.
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The Battle of the Falkland's War. Very Good. Placed on the web, this version of the book is full & well detailed (maps, photos and details are very thorough and clearly set out). British published but it heads the list of recommended British-published books, described as "a very useful and detailed guide to the day-by-day development of the war" in the Argentine Army journal "Soldados", April 2000 edition.
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Falklands Conflict Produced by Navy News, newspaper of the Royal navy. Comprehensive, well produced
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Falklands (Islas Malvinas) War 1982 - A site with very British views, focused from the British soldiers point of view. This is part of a site looking at all Britain´s military and imperial conflicts up to the present time. Includes a message board for veterans.
Chronologies
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4. Biographies
- People photographs of key participants in the conflict. Comprehensive. From Falklands Conflict site
Galtieri-
 A Day in the Life of Galtieri
by Uki Goñi - 1996
article Villa Devoto, Buenos Aires is
home to soccer ace Diego Maradona, but just a few streets away, scarcely a head turned when a dictator once cheered by millions
went out to do his shopping. Few generals managed to fade away as quietly as Leopoldo Galtieri.
§ - Galtieri
obituary article from the UK Guardian upon his death
by Alex Bellos, South America correspondent,
January 13, 2003
- Obituary of a criminal from Russia' Pravda... another angle....
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 Mensaje del Presidente Galtieri
Galtieri anuncia la recuperación de las Islas Malvinas : listen to the speech. (Sometimes however it can be offline - exceeds its visitor limits?)
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Galtieri from the balcony of the Casa Rosada
Thatcher- Patriotism has Worked its Old Magic Guardian Unlimited special report on the Thatcher era, written in November 2000, 10 years after her resignation. This article takes a damning look at her role in the Falklands War.
- Margaret Thatcher Biography Concise but useful, with an (surprising?) attempt at balance from the
The Margaret Thatcher Site. §
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"Rejoice" Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Defence Secretary John
Nott deliver statement describing successful landing of British troops on
South Georgia during Falklands conflict, Thatcher refuses to answer
questions from press, telling them to "rejoice", Downing Street; 25 Apr 82
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5. The military actions
Naval conflict-
Clausewitz and Seapower: Lessons of the Falkland Islands War Edward B. Zellem; Albert L. St Clair (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1999. Motives, key assumptions, military strategy, and tactics of Great Britain and Argentina discussed within the context of the Clausewitzian dictum that "war is the continuation of politics by other means."
The Warships
Belgrano
Attacks on the Royal Navy
Air war
The aircraft
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Aircraft of both sides. Detailed listings
- Falklands War Air Forces from Wikipedia. Excellent detail and cross referencing
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La Fuerza Aérea Argentina en Malvinas Very detailed, and well presented site produced by la Fuerza Aérea Argentina. Excellent links to comparative UK/Argentine sources give this considerable balance as a resource
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The New Hawks of the Argentine Air Force
Article By Cees-Jan van der Ende, Juan Carlos Cicalesi and Santiago Rivason on the Skyhawks used by the Argentina airforce
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The Torpedo Armed Pucar
By Atilio Marino, Javier Mosquera & Vladimiro Cettolo. The South Atlantic conflict caused the Argentinean Armed Forces to face their own internal limitations and failures in warfare. This tells how the Pucaro became a torpedo bomber...
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Video library from Falklands Conflict Site (includes film of Pucara close support attack aircraft; Sea Harriers landing on HMS Invincible; Two Mirage take off from an Argentine airbase)
RAF bombing of the islands
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 Operation
Black Buck detailed & illustrated account of V Bomber planning and the
airfield raids from RAF
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V Bombers RAF teaching sequence of the Black Buck V bomber raids on Stanley. Good map visuals
- The tin triangle strikes again Review of an account of the mission to destroy the Argentine-held airstrip at Stanley. It was, and remains, the longest range air attack in history. The task was simple. The means by which it was achieved, was mind-bogglingly complex, sometimes chaotic, occasionally farcical.
Bomb Alley: San Carlos Bay
And on the islands
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6. The International Situation
Diplomacy of the war
Allies and enemies-
Chile and support for Britain
(Click here to read the article in google English)
General Fernando Matthei, ex- Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force of Chile and member of the Military junta between 1977 and 1989, reveals (July 1999) to the Santiago paper Tercera how Chile gave support to the UK.
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Colaboracion de Chile con Gran Bretana en Malvinas
(Click here to read the article in google English)
Gives an insight into the Chilean motivation in supporting the UK - and their fear that the Malvinas occupation was Galtieri's first step in further expansion. It is also interesting in the light of recent press releases about the monies still being paid to Pinochet by the British Government. (See next item)
- US banking records show links between arms firm and ex-dictator continued until last year from the London Guardian, Sept 2005
- Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Revelations of the conduct of the 1982 War are contained in a book by the British Defence Secretary at the time, Sir John Nott. He tells his version for the first time of how British agents denied Argentina supplies of the feared Exocet missile, and how France advised Britain on ways to counter the missiles and of of the tensions in Margaret Thatcher's War Cabinet, as well as his feud with the head of the Royal Navy
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 Crucial Falklands role played by US missiles Guardian article explains in 2002 how Thatcher would have lost the Falklands war in 1982 if America had failed to provide crucial missiles to bolster British air defences. - Twenty Years On: The nature of friendship: Britain, America and Argentina during the Falklands War Essay from Antiwar.com looking back at the relationships during the war
- Falklands war almost spread to Gibraltar UK Guardian, July 2004: One of the Argentinian admirals who sent his country to war with Britain over the Falkland islands has admitted that he dispatched a team of saboteurs to sink a Royal Navy ship in Gibraltar.
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7. Witness accounts
Click to read a witness account
(from BBC)
Argentine-
El apostadero Naval Malvinas en Internet Página desarrollada por un veterano de la guerra, donde se brinda información sobre el Apostadero Naval Malvinas. Cuenta con listados de veteranos de la Armada Argentina y de beneficios sociales diversos para los mismos. Posee una sección de documentos, así como un apartado histórico, aún en construcción. Site designed by Argentine naval veterans posted to the islands during the conflict.
- The Birth of Bomb Alley By Juan Carlos Cicalesi & Santiago Rivas. On the 21st of May of 1982 the British forces began to disembark on San Carlos bay, beginning the ground operations of the Malvinas/ Falklands war. On that day, the legend of the Bomb Alley began. This is the Argentine point of view of what happened on that day.
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La Fuerza Aérea Argentina en Malvinas Argentine Air Force: Extracts of descriptions of involvement in the war, from sources world wide
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Malvinas Air Combat Veteran Photo album, Personal photos of R.Brown, Brigadier (RE) - retired- Argentine Air Force
. Worthwhile.
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Cruces (or
in google English:
Crossings:
return & departure from the Falklands)
by Lorenz and Guembe Pagina/12 book review. The authors
collected unpublished photos of the war, several are in the article.
These are not battle images (although there are many previously
suppressed images of the dead) but are of the war's overall impact on
the soldiers.
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Salir de los silencios (Click to read "Leaving the Silence" in Google English) Article by Edgardo Esteban ex Argentine soldier on the islands (Scriptwriter of the recent Goya award winning film Iluminados por el fuego). Most interestingly, he describes the process of "demalvinización" following the Argentine defeat, in which the war was to be "officially" forgotten.
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La vida después de la muerte ("life after the death") Multimedia Flash site from Clarin, Buenos Aires daily. Focusing on the impact the war had on five relatives of troops killed in the conflict. Best seen using broadband, it presents the five personal stories against a background of images and sounds from the period and includes "extras" such as images, chronologies, key facts. Unfortunately it is only in Spanish and as it is a Flash site, cannot be googled. There is an option to have subtitles to each story which may help if you have a little Spanish.
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British
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Memoirs from Falklands Conflict pages. A useful group of recollections
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BBC Falkland Families radio programmes (Hear them in full) on families/individuals affected by the conflict. Hint: the first few minutes are usually the end of the previous programe or trailers for another one. The programes usually start 2-3 minutes into the download.
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HMS Broadsword 82 - The war seen from the crew members of HMS Broadsword one of the Task Force ships. This is a very comprehensive and well produced site. Good for the personal angle.
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The Great White Whale Memories and (very good) images of the Falklands War from an engineer who served aboard the SS Canberra.
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The view from Plymouth, England in 1982.
This is a personal account seen from the viewpoint of a civilian living
in England at the time of the war. (Plymouth, the city he lived is a
major naval base).
 Islanders
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8. Documents
Argentine documents:
Argentine Surrender, 14 June 1982
Articles from the
Argentine & international press during the war
From Islas Malvinas Online.
Good, full listing but sometimes however it can be offline - exceeds its visitor limits?
Newspaper front pages. A selection of Argentine newspaper front pages from key periods of the war. Interesting comparisons can then be made with "Gotcha" type headlines of the UK Sun! (see also below in British documents). From the Biblioteca Nacional (National library) of Argentina
GreenePeace
(Click here to read the article in google English) An article from Página 12 (left of centre newspaper published in Buenos Aires) which comments on a sympathetic letter sent by Graham Greene, (author of the Honorary Consul and Travels with my Aunt, both of which were set in Argentina/Paraguay and based on his time in 1960's Argentina) as a reply to an Argentine journalist during the war and published at the time by Diario Clarín. Interesting, as it shows how interpretations of comments can be given a different, and exaggerated spin to further propaganda.British documents:
Island documents:
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9. Audio Visual Materials
The emergence of YouTube has made video resources easily accessible for the
first time. However, this is proving a mixed blessing as YouTube is littered
with reconstructed/game based videos of the conflict, many of which are in
fact counterfactual history or rampantly jingoistic. Use the YouTube search
engine with care!!
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