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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
It's not only troops, it's ships. Back in '82 we had 48 destroyers/frigates...we've less than half of that now. Only one carrier is fully operational and we've half the subs we did have. In fact, things are so bad that for the first time since the seventeen century we have not had a ship on the West Indies station (HMS Iron Duke was withdrawn before Christmas; that is why you did not see any RN presence following the Haitian earthquake)
Basically, we're buggared if the Argies go in. The best we can hope for is to get a few squadrons of typoons down there and take air control - but we have to do that PDQ.
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S'ok .... there are still three of Her Majesty's ships in the area: HMCS Athabaskan, HMCS Ville de Quebec, and HMCS Halifax.
