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Can Britain defend the Falklands? / Bell, Mark S

Bell, Mark S	Journal Article
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2012.

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Britain's ability to defend the Falkland Islands from Argentina has been repeatedly challenged by former military leaders and analysts. These concerns have been driven by British defence cuts, the discovery of hydrocarbon reserves close to the Falklands, and increasingly bellicose Argentine rhetoric and actions. This paper evaluates Argentina's capacity to launch an attack on the Falklands and the British capacity to defend against such an attack. Argentina's ability to threaten the Falklands is limited, because Argentina cannot easily neutralise British air superiority over the islands. Even if Argentina could do so, Argentina would find it difficult to bring sufficient troops onto the islands to threaten the Mount Pleasant airfield, or prevent British reinforcements from arriving. Although Britain's current military posture is reasonable, Britain needs a political strategy to counter an Argentine campaign of low-level harassment.

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Argentina ; Hydrocarbon ; Britain ; Political Strategy ; Falkland

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ID: 089754

Falklands frontiers: oil exploration at the ends of the earth / Munks, Robert

Munks, Robert	Journal Article
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Publication	2009.
Summary/Abstract	As oil companies prepare to begin a new round of exploratory drilling for oil off the coast of the disputed Falkland (Malvinas) Islands, article assesses the local government's low-key policy of attemping to play down hopes of an economic bonanza.

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Malvinas ; Falkland ; Oil Exploration

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ID: 127271

Reprieved just in time: RFA stromness and the Falklands taks force / Mennell, Bernard

Mennell, Bernard	Journal Article
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2012.

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China ; Falkland ; Falklands Task Force ; NAAFI ; HK Chinese Wroking Party

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When you're out of AEW, you're out of ships, when you're out of / Russell, M S

Russell, M S	Journal Article
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Publication	2009.
Summary/Abstract	In 1982 the burning hulks of British warships off the Falkland Islands brought into stark relief the impact that defence cuts can have.

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Maritime ; Maritime Security ; Maritime Force ; Falkland ; Future Maritime Operations

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