As the thread title says ” Falklands war and the shambles that it was behind the scenes”
I wonder how many extra lives were lost because of lack of equipment and the “mend and make do necessity” ,we don’t learn ,the amount of deaths in the Middle East 20 years later because the troops didn’t have the correct equipment.
It’s a fact of life that militaries normally fight the next war with the equipment that they used in the last. Certainly a second tier military powers like the UK does, because it costs shed loads of cash to do anything else. The SDR of 1998 did not (and could not) predict the requirement to equip / train HMF to deal with 2 concurrent medium scale COIN centric operations. Exactly the same principle applies to the Falklands War, which saw UK land forces, trained and equipped to fight a high intensity conventional war in mainland Europe, projected 6000 miles by a RN Task Force whose primary task was to combat the Soviet Navy. The fact that we Brits pulled it off, is testament to the adaptability and professionalism of the men and women involved.
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