[Shasown]

Incidentally the British Government knew there was Oil and Gas fields down there in the 1970's, following the conflict in 1982 it gave us the opportunity to build up Mare harbour (in the south of East Falkland with lots and lots of oil and gas storage some of which has never been used) Funny old thing that.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Shasown

Incidentally the British Government knew there was Oil and Gas fields down there in the 1970's, following the conflict in 1982 it gave us the opportunity to build up Mare harbour (in the south of East Falkland with lots and lots of oil and gas storage some of which has never been used) Funny old thing that.

For Sure.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by arista

For Sure.

Here take a read through this, it may provide shocking reading

http://www.uknda.org/tri-service_matters/c-17.html

Its an excellent bedtime read, right up there with Clancy and Grisham

Whilst its not an official document all the facts and figures are or rather were accurate at the time of writing. The bulk of the document was produced between 2003(after the Revisions to the Strategic Defence Review) and 2007 with the odd amendment where required in 2008.

Given that in 1982 the amount of money in real terms spent on defence was over double what it is now. And we didnt really have as many overseas operational commitments. Now we have Iraq and Afghanistan, less than half of the manpower following SDR etc that we had in 82.

What isnt realised is that we came very very close to losing, units were on the last stocks of ammunition, the men were physically exhausted, and it could have been us handed our arses on a plate. If a similar situation occured today there is no way we would be able to reclaim the Islands back.