More doom mongering from naval types

This past month has seen some rather unfortunate trains of thought from experienced naval types.

Last month Sam Woodward, commander of the naval task prophesied that the barely functioning Argentine armed forces would be emboldened by the recent statement from the US, and the lack of any eeer carriers and harriers to invade the islands.

Echoing an equally silly rant from Lord West in November last year, Admiral Woodward seems to miss out all the points entirely and follow the bizarre train of logic which has afflicted many of the Falklands war's most famous names.

Their entire argument has hinged on the rather flawed assumption that the sole reason the Argies have yet to invade is because they where perpetually terrified of our measly Aircraft carriers and 60 year old col war era STOL Harriers holed up in Portsmouth and not of course because of the 1,500 troops, artillery, SAM batteries, Radar facilities, listening posts, 4 Typhoon fighters and a type 42 destroyer  actually defending the islands.

The idea that the Army, Navy and Air force units, not to mention the local Territorial Army unit are incapable of defending against any potential threat from Argentina or whoever else takes a fancy to British interests in the area, and that only the might of the navy alone could defend and retake the islands, is quite frankly...well insulting.

Dr Liam Fox summed up the UK's current defence policy on the islands, "We will not need any aircraft carriers to retake the Falklands, because quite frankly we will not lose them".