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2. Origins of the 1982 Conflict 

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• EL Malvinense A good place to start for the long term roots to the conflict. Bilingual site produced by Alejandro/Alexander Jacobo Betts, born on the islands, but who moved to the mainland just before the 1982 conflict. Betts was an employee of LADE, the Argentine national airline company on the island before the war.

• Falklands/Malvinas (A): Breakdown of Negotiations and
  Appendix B:  Early History and Legal Issues Very detailed essay from federation of American Scientists: Military Analysis site §
• Islas Malvinas Online Good site. Includes articles on the historical and legal basis of the dispute. (Sometimes however it can be offline - exceeds its visitor limits?)
• Geopolitics in the Foreign Office: British representations of Argentina 1945-1961 Paper by K Dodds Royal Geographic Society) which presents a critical geopolitical analysis of British representations of Argentina. Government records are used to explore how a long-standing trading relationship was being replaced by relations based increasingly on conflict and geopolitical competition in the Antarctic and the South Atlantic.
• Diplomacia de Malvinas, 1945-1989  Historia general de las relaciones exteriores de la República Argentina. Produced by Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (CARI), Contains chapters on:

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3. General accounts of the war 

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• Falklands War Also see the Spanish (more limited) version:
•  Guerra de las Malvinas from Wikipedia. Two excellent, detailed and well cross-referenced articles. Very thorough
• Islas Malvinas. Site of the Argentine infantry (infanteria ejercito). Details of troop origins, locations, battles and decorations
• Guerra de Malvinas A very full narrative by Marcial Sorazabal (93 pages) covering events of the war, causes and conclusions.  Pictures and diagrams. Intriguing final sections on the reaction to war. The bibliography used is interesting. By the same author, (but not a pdf) see Guerra de Malvinas issued by Monografias.com  a web site hosting (mainly student) essays
• BBC: despite the similarity of the first two titles, each has different articles. both are worth looking at for background, interviews and analysis.
  • Fight for the Falklands: "20 years on"
  • 20 años Falklands/Malvinas
  • Chronology produced in 1998 when Menem visited the UK. Contains timeline and links to audio & video reports.
  • On This Day: 1982: Argentina invades Falklands BBC site to the day of the invasion. AV reports from BBC TV.
• The Battle of the Falkland's War. Very Good. Placed on the web, this version of the book is full & well detailed (maps, photos and details are very thorough and clearly set out). British published but it heads the list of recommended British-published books, described as "a very useful and detailed guide to the day-by-day development of the war" in the Argentine Army journal "Soldados", April 2000 edition.
• Falklands Conflict Produced by Navy News, newspaper of the Royal navy. Comprehensive, well produced
• Falklands (Islas Malvinas) War 1982 - A site with very British views, focused from the British soldiers point of view. This is part of a site looking at all Britain´s military and imperial conflicts up to the present time.  Includes a message board for veterans.

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4. Biographies

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• People photographs of key participants in the conflict. Comprehensive. From Falklands Conflict site

Galtieri

• A Day in the Life of Galtieri by Uki Goñi - 1996 article Villa Devoto, Buenos Aires is  home to soccer ace Diego Maradona, but just a few streets away, scarcely a head turned when a dictator once cheered by millions went out to do his shopping. Few generals managed to fade away as quietly as Leopoldo Galtieri.  §
• Galtieri  obituary article from the UK Guardian upon his death by Alex Bellos, South America correspondent, January 13, 2003
• Obituary of a criminal from Russia' Pravda... another angle....
• Mensaje del Presidente Galtieri Galtieri anuncia la recuperación de las Islas Malvinas : listen to the speech. (Sometimes however it can be offline - exceeds its visitor limits?)
• Galtieri from the balcony of the Casa Rosada

Thatcher

• Patriotism has Worked its Old Magic Guardian Unlimited special report on the Thatcher era, written in November 2000, 10 years after her resignation. This article takes a damning look at her role in the Falklands War.
• Margaret Thatcher Biography Concise but useful, with an (surprising?) attempt at balance from the The Margaret Thatcher Site. §
• "Rejoice" Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Defence Secretary John Nott deliver statement describing successful landing of British troops on South Georgia during Falklands conflict, Thatcher refuses to answer questions from press, telling them to "rejoice", Downing Street; 25 Apr 82

 

 

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5. The military actions 

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Naval conflict

• Clausewitz and Seapower: Lessons of the Falkland Islands War  Edward B. Zellem; Albert L. St Clair (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1999. Motives, key assumptions, military strategy, and tactics of Great Britain and Argentina discussed within the context of the Clausewitzian dictum that "war is the continuation of politics by other means."

        The Warships 

• Ships of the conflict used by both sides. Detailed listings
• Argentine Naval Forces in the Falklands War and British Naval Forces in the Falklands War from Wikipedia. Excellent detail and cross referencing

        Belgrano 

• Channel 4 - History - The Belgrano controversy article by Dr Eric Grove looking at the reasons behind the sinking
• Margaret Thatcher talking about sinking the Belgrano YouTube video. Margaret Thatcher defends the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands War on TVAM to David Frost.

        Attacks on the Royal Navy 

• Official log entry for the Etendard/Exocet missile attack that sank HMS Sheffield on May 4th
• Going Critical: HMS Coventry Visually rich UK Channel 4 site on the science of the sinking.

Air war 

• "Air Power Lessons," Military Lessons of the Falkland Islands War: Views from the United States, 1984 Extract from the book by Earl Tilford §
• Offensive Air Operations of The Falklands War Major Walter F. DeHoust, 2 April 1984, Marine Corps Command and Staff College Marine Corps Development and Education Command. A seminar paper and layout is spartan, but very detailed.

         The aircraft 

• Aircraft of both sides. Detailed listings
• Falklands War Air Forces from Wikipedia. Excellent detail and cross referencing
• La Fuerza Aérea Argentina en Malvinas Very detailed, and well presented site produced by la Fuerza Aérea Argentina. Excellent links to comparative UK/Argentine sources give this considerable balance as a resource
• The New Hawks of the Argentine Air Force Article By Cees-Jan van der Ende, Juan Carlos Cicalesi and Santiago Rivason on the Skyhawks used by the Argentina airforce
• The Torpedo Armed Pucará  By Atilio Marino, Javier Mosquera & Vladimiro Cettolo. The South Atlantic conflict caused the Argentinean Armed Forces to face their own internal limitations and failures in warfare. This tells how the Pucaro became a torpedo bomber...
• Video library from Falklands Conflict Site (includes film of Pucara close support attack aircraft;  Sea Harriers landing on HMS Invincible; Two Mirage take off from an Argentine airbase)

        RAF bombing of the islands 

• Operation Black Buck detailed & illustrated account of V Bomber planning and the airfield raids from RAF
• V Bombers RAF teaching sequence of the Black Buck V bomber raids on Stanley. Good map visuals
• The tin triangle strikes again Review of an account of the mission to destroy the Argentine-held airstrip at Stanley. It was, and remains, the longest range air attack in history. The task was simple. The means by which it was achieved, was mind-bogglingly complex, sometimes chaotic, occasionally farcical.

• In the Homeland Day By Diego Zampini Argentine account of events on May 25th
• "Allee der Bomben" Austrian site, in German, very well set out on the events of the San Carlos landings
• The Birth of Bomb Alley By Juan Carlos Cicalesi & Santiago Rivas. Recounts the bombing of the San Carlos landing forces.

• How Falkland Islanders went to War  By Graham Bound, Harold Briley (Falkland Islands Newsletter, No. 81, May 2002) Looks at individual case histories