I was down with my old military unit today – at Poole in Dorset. With their last Afghanistan deployment behind them, they’ve been training very hard to get everybody back to the unit’s proper role – the use of naval gunfire. They’d just finished a very arduous training course to get their naval communicators and […]
After Afghanistan: getting back to “normal”…. Read More »
Cameron needs to stop baiting Argentina and sort out the MoD so UK can defend the Falklands for the next 30 years.
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The report from Edison Investment Research predicting almost £112bn worth of oil in Falklands territorial waters provides a few figures to add to the current debate over the sovereignty of the Islands. But Ian McLelland, co-author of the report, warns that instability in the South Atlantic caused by Argentine belligerence, will prevent the required
Falklands oil rig protection – a few practical problems… Read More »
Are the Falkland Islander really as sanguine about their future as local press reports claim, in the face of UK’s inept hacking back of the Royal Navy especially its carriers, and the USA’s increasingly pro-Argentine position in relation to their desire to remain British?
Falkland Islanders: heads in the sands, or desperate not to rock the boat? Read More »