What We Learned: from the Falklands War

It was a brief but violent war that baffled Americans, drove Britons to an ecstasy of patriotism and totally blindsided the Argentines. For 150 years Argentina and Great Britain had contested sovereignty over the Falklands and South Georgia, a group of wind-ravaged, virtually treeless islands in the South Atlantic. Though essentially worthless, they had once …

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