Remember the US only gets involved in 'real' wars with equal opponents like Vietnam and Grenada and Iraq . All modern industrialised powers.

Nick

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>>>During the Falklands War it's held that the Argentines were most scared of the prospect of facing the G's who were called to action there.
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>>The Falklands "war"? Jorge Luis Borges had the perfect observation about that one. He said it was two bald men arguing over a comb.
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>Hmmm, an argument that cost some 250 GB lives and 1,000s of Argentines. I'll wager that the men on The Falklands went through far more privations than any squaddy in the Gulf wars - "yomping" for miles across wind-swept moors, in biting winter temps (The helicopter transport ship, Atlantic Conveyor had been sunk by exorcet). The horrors that the men in HMS Sheffield et al had to go through after exocet attack. Using the mortars on the rocky hillsides meant that there was nowhere to secure their footings, so men volunteered to stand their weight on the tripod feet, knowing that the kick of the launch would break their leg.
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>tcha!