A Historian Reacts // THE FALKLANDS // Oversimplified

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[VloggingThroughHistory]

Hey everyone, thanks so much for the feedback on the background color. Decided to try something new since the black often blends in with my hair....sounds like it might be distracting for some, so now I know! As always, appreciate the input.

[Theturtleowl]

I really appreciate that you mention that even if the casualty count was low, it was a tragedy for every family that lost a son, brother, father, etc.

[littleman]

When he puts the glasses on.

Internally: It’s about go down.

[whitewachtel]

I saw an interview once with some of the argentinian conscripts who participated in the war and these guys said something along the lines of: "Yeah, we were basically teens with basic training and then these british marines showed up. They had far better equipment than we did and every single one of these dudes looked like Rambo, so we kinda knew it was over already."

[dutchmapping]

It looks nice, maybe a beige like colour instead of the distracting blue colour?

[bigbusinessman]

I think the shade of blue is a little distracting, maybe a shade closer to black

[Luriksen]

In November last year, Britain finished the mine clearing in the Falklands.

[thmaniac]

8:30 ironically that "Go to war to distract from the misery" worked out well for Thatcher herself who pre-war was struggling to keep her popularity up.

[paulpotts]

My cousin lost his leg in the Falklands war, he was involved in the attack on Goose Green in the 2nd Parachute Regiment. A comrade of his stepped on a mine hidden within a number of rocks and one of the rocks blown away shattered his leg.
A lot of my family seem to have been involved in wars, myself in the first Gulf War, both of my cousins in the Falklands, my father in Borneo, my uncle in Aden, I can actually go back six generations in which my family has fought in wars and only my cousin Geoff has come back with any physical injury, the rest of us have been very very lucky

[ZwiekszoneRyzyko]

I'm Polish and I still remember how I learned about the conflict: from The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (the TV series was quite popular in Poland back in the day). It's because of one of the best quotes in the entire show: "At tea-time I was looking at our world map, but I couldn’t see the Falkland Islands anywhere. My mother found them; they were hidden under a crumb of fruitcake." 😂😂😂

[AngelWolf]

Love me some Oversimplified and Vlogging through history!

[WaywardVet]

My favorite part of the Falklands War involves an old slaughterhouse. It had a roof, so the British medical commander, Rick Jolly, made it a field hospital. Had amazing success, as nobody (Argentine or British) who made it to the hospital died. It became known as The Red and Green Life Machine. (Red for the Para berets and Green for the Marines)

[DavidSSabb]

10:30 - the reason for this, by the way, is that Chile and Argentina had been in a long dispute over ownership of some islands at the southern tip of South America, and had very nearly gone to war over it a couple years earlier. The Chileans feared that if Galtieri was successful in taking the Falklands, he would turn his attention to invading their disputed territories next.

[Davey-Boyd]

A lot of the ground combat was not as easy as portrayed. Imagine an Infantry night attack through a minefield over open ground with bayonets fixed at an entrenched enemy on high ground who outnumbers you. It was brutal.

[Yora]

The Falklands War was a small war in the scale of the theater, the number of troops, and the duration of the fighting.
But the fighting that did happen was still "full scale war", not some border skirmishes. Capital ships being sunk, supply lines being threatened, air to air battles.

[gonzalopacheco]

Great reaction, been waiting for this one! My uncle almost fought in this war.

An interesting fact is that argentinian aircrafts such as the super etendard, had to take off from mainland, then fly almost next to sea level in order to reach the britsh navy ships and sunk them whilst not being caught by britsh radars. Many british soldiers recognised the argentinian pilots to perform one the greatest manouvers and strategies at the time.

One of the major problems was the lack of preparation groundsoldiers had, bare in mind that Argentina almost went to war with Chile a couple of years earlier due to frontier disputes, that's why Chile supported the UK and militarised their whole frontier, as a result, Argentina had to keep their most experienced soldiers on ground.

Our soldiers don't get the recognition they deserve in our country, as they were invisibilized right after the war by the society, due to the bad reputation the military had (and has still to our days) by a major part of it as a consequence of the dictatorship, which ended after the war.

Keep it up!

Greetings from Argentina.

[luisrincon]

That's a low number of casualties but for each family a solider died, it was one too many deaths

[jaffraysmodels]

Hello. I’m from the Falkland Islands. Fun fact there is no more land mines left. They have been dug up and destroyed. This happened 2 - 3 months ago

[zuzubodo]

Spain : the treaty of Tordesillas says it's mine !
UK : I discovered the island so it's mine !
US : It is in America so it's mine !
Argentina : it was spanish so now I'm independant it's mine !
France : I don't like UK. Don't give it to him.

[hemingfordgrey]

In fact not only did HMS Conqueror not use very new missiles, they actually chose to use the older of the torpedo types they had as being more reliable. So the Belgrano was sunk with a Mark VIII torpedo designed in 1927.