There won’t be no round two because:
1) Margaret Thatcher is not Prime Minister and 2) the Royal Navy is only a weak shadow of its former self.
The Argentinians sense the Brit weakness and will win.
In the early 80’s the Argentine military was highly politicized. Promotion was based on family connections and proven ideological committement to the current regime.
The Argentine military of today is much more professional.
Not to Western standards but enough to win a war off its shore against a country fighting half way around it.
Would the British public be willing to pour blood and treasure there ?
I doubt it. Argentines are quite manic about a few rocks in the South Atantic.
Nonsense.
The Falklands garrison is armed up to the eyeballs, and numbers a much larger number than 1982.
The Argies would never get on the beach, let alone win. They’d be slaughtered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_Falkland_Islands
No, they won’t.
The RN would struggle to muster the force to recapture the islands again, but they wouldnt have to.
This time we got a substantial force on the Islands - thousands of military personnel and fixed wing jet fighters on 24/7, as opposed to 1982 when the garrison was 81 men and a 3” mortar with a cracked tube.
Agreed. No round 2.