OT The 1970s
 

"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary made the
decision to send nuclear-powered submarines on March 29th.

And that again was just moving hardware around so it could be
used if it was decided to use it given the long time it takes to get
that sort of hardware where it could be used to **** over the Argys.

It wasn't true either, the one that torpedoed the battle ship wasn't the one
seen "going" to the falklands.

I expect the show of forces was expected to get the argentinians to leave.
However it didn't.

Then the Americans had to persuaded to give logistics support or we couldn't
have invaded at all.
We just didn't have the kit to do it.

OT The 1970s
 

dennis@home wrote
Rod Speed wrote

The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary made the
decision to send nuclear-powered submarines on March 29th.

And that again was just moving hardware around so it could be
used if it was decided to use it given the long time it takes to get
that sort of hardware where it could be used to **** over the Argys.

It wasn't true either, the one that torpedoed the battle ship wasn't the
one seen "going" to the falklands.

Irrelevant to what was being discussed,
who approved the sinking of the Belgrano.

Maggie did.

I expect the show of forces was expected to get the argentinians to leave.
However it didn't.

Irrelevant to who decided to **** the Argys over when they didn't.

Then the Americans had to persuaded to give logistics support

They didn't have to be persuaded, they were keen on doing that.

or we couldn't have invaded at all.

Yes, particularly with satellite surveillance on what was going on etc.

We just didn't have the kit to do it.

That was only true of the satellite surveillance.