The Falklands War: Difference between revisions

* [[Banana Republic]]: No matter what one's opinion on the sovereignty issue is, Argentina under the [[People's Republic of Tyranny|National Reorganization Process]] counted. One of the reasons for the was was because the Junta sought something to placate domestic discontent at home.

* [[Brits With Battleships]] [[Cool Plane|And Jump Jets]]: [[Cool vs. Awesome|As awesome as it sounds.]]

* [[Real Life/Cool Plane|Cool Plane]]:

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]:

** The Battle of Goose Green, in which the British units defeated ''fortified'' Argentine forces ''three times their size'', despite losing a few men themselves, particularly in the end phase of the battle (the siege of the Goose Green settlement itself - the entrenchments around the airfield and the schoolhouse, to be precise).

* [[The Dreaded]]: The Sea Harriers.

* [[The Empire]]: [[The British Empire]]. More straightly, what the Argentine military wanted to create at the expense of Britain, Chile, and Uruguay.

* [[Fast Roping]]

* [[The Generalissimo]]: Galtieri and the rest of the Junta are textbook examples.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: It was about the conflicting honor of the respective states. The Falklands don't have any material benefits and if there were the populations of the respective countries, as opposed to the governments would not have been particularly more supportive.

* [[HSQ]]: Pretty damn high despite the relatively moderate body count.

* [[Iron Lady]]: Maggie.

* [[Karmic Death]]: On a governmental level, the National Reorganization Process suffered this due to the backlash from the failure of its' PR-raising Imperial adventure.

** On one returning transport ship there was written in graffiti that the Gurkhas were taking several hundred Argentine heads with them. All that of course is legend. The Gurkhas behaved in a civilized and disciplined fashion. But it is funny and shows how far a reputation can go.

* [[Stiff Upper Lip]]: On ''two'' occasions, the crew of a disabled ship, waiting on deck to be rescued, sang [[Life of Brian|"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"]].

* [[Warrior Prince]]: Prince Andrew flew an ASW helicopter personally. In order to decoy missiles from his ship, no less.

* [[Weapons Kitchen Sink]]/[[Selective Historical Armoury]]: Noticeable with some of the standard issue firearms used in the war. While most of the small arms were reasonably contemporary models (e. g. the FN FALs and the various grenade and rocket launchers), the troops were still using some trusty [[World War Two]] era arms as well: The Brits used Sterling SMGs for close combat and updated Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifles for sniping duty, while the Argentines had the American M3 "Grease Gun" SMGs and German WWII and ''[[Break Out the Museum Piece|WWI]]'' Mauser rifles as equivalents. In the case of the Argentines, it was more out of necessity than anything else, since their army equipment was generally more outdated than the British one (though, surprisingly, the Argentine soldiers had more effective night vision devices).

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ProSIM/TFW/TFW_page.html The Falklands War]'' from the indie war [[Simulation Game]] studio Shrapnel Games. Besides recreating actual missions and battles from the war, it also offers several [[Alternate History]] takes on various engagements, including greater use of armed vehicles on the islands.

* Another upcoming indie war sim about the Falklands conflict is ''[http://www.thunder-works.com/ Jet Thunder]''.

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