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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="HernanF" data-source="post: 1101199" data-attributes="member: 7964">De este artículo salió lo que reprodujeron los diarios nacionales, no tengo ganas de traducirlo, resalto al final un par de cosillas:...Lord Peter Carrington, foreign secretary, wrote in a letter to Sir John Nott, the defence secretary, in June 1981 that “any reduction [of military force in the region] would be interpreted by both the islanders and the Argentines as a reduction in commitment to the island and our willingness to defend them”.He added that HMS Endurance, the Arctic icebreaker patrolling the area, “plays a vital role in both political and defence terms in the F@lkland Islands” and should not be scrapped without a replacement being found.The lightly armed Endurance was nonetheless scheduled to be decommissioned along with two other main aircraft carriers. Many historians consider the decision as a trigger for the invasion of the islands by the Argentinian military Junta in April 1982.The release of the correspondence, ahead of next year’s 30th anniversary of the conflict, comes just a week after Mercosur, the trading bloc which includes Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, inflamed tensions over the islands by agreeing to close ports throughout the region to ships flying the flag of the F@lklands. Documents from the archives also show that Mrs Thatcher received warnings from Sir Henry Leach, the first sea lord, about the naval defence cuts. “The proposals have been devised ad hoc in two months. It has all been done in a rush,” he wrote.“Such unbalanced devastation to our overall defence capability is unprecedented. War seldom takes the expected form and a strong maritime capability provides flexibility for the unforeseen,” he added.The warning letter from Lord Carrington had evidently been read by Mrs Thatcher, who underlined and initialled sections in a thick felt-tipped pen. She highlighted passages concerning the islands’ sovereignty, but not the parts with the warnings about cuts.Historians were already aware that the defence establishment had complained about the cuts in 1981. But what is new from the archives is the stark language of the warnings over the F@lklands.It weakens the claims of the official 1983 Franks Committee report – considered by many at the time to be a whitewash – that it would “not be justified in attaching any criticism or blame to the present government” for the invasion...Menciona a dos o tres muñecos britones, del ámbito político y militar, que le mandaron un warning a Tatcher un año antes y de la necesidad de no mandar a desgüace al Endurance antes de tener listo un reemplazo. Dicen que mantener al Endurance fue lo que gatilló la recuperación del 2 de abril de 1982, en fin, eso dice…Sarasa, britona, pero sarasa al fin, chau!Hernán.</blockquote>

Verificación: Guerra desarrollada entre Argentina y el Reino Unido en 1982