Where's the Beef in the Falklands Defence Review?
Posted on Thursday 16th April 2015





Further Reading
Fortress Falklands
(Paperback - 232 pages)
ISBN: 9781848847453
by Graham Bound
Only £19.99
Since the war of 1982, the 3,000 people who live in the remote Falkland Islands have replaced traditional colonial rule with their own autonomous government, and become wealthy from the sale of fishing licences. Now oil has been discovered, and it promises almost unimaginable wealth. Money has already transformed this tiny society – not always for the better. But home-grown challenges are as nothing compared to the threat from their neighbour, Argentina.
The oil discoveries have fuelled Argentina's ambitions to take the Islands that they believe were…
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