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Originally Posted by Vexes
The British would have a hard time taking them back in 2010. They had a hard time years ago and needed US covert support. Now the British Navy is shadow of itself.
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Not really true from what the brits are claiming. The Americans dithered in 1982, not wanting to upset their South American Allies and pushing for a negotiated settlement. The brits got help from Norway and France a "high ranking British military source" said.
According to British Secretary of Defence at the time Sir John Nott it was the French who were your real allies during the Falklands Conflict, sending personnel over to Britain in order to provide information, codes and training with regard to the Exocet Missiles and Mirage aircraft.
Norway gave us a stream of information about the Argentine warships? positions. The information (intercepted Soviet satellite intelligence data) came to us all the time and straight to our war headquarters at Northwood. The information was continuously updated and told us exactly where the Argentine ships were. The Norwegians were NATO members and helped Britain from the start.
It was only after a considerable period of dragging it's feet that America finally sided with Britain, a fellow NATO member. Even then American help was marginal and not by any means a deciding factor in the conflict.