Hell, the story's even featured in that well known socialist rag, the Daily Mail.
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In the paper Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward, who led the task force during the Falklands War, is inerviewed and he says he has written to armed forces minister Nick Harvey, calling on him to reconsider cuts to the Navy’s budget.
He says the vast costs of running the conflict from a base in Italy prove that scrapping Ark Royal was a false economy.
He's quoted as saying that the political and operational adaptability provided by operating air power from the sea is now starkly clear against the cost of the current operation where six months of land-based RAF operations would cost the order of £1billion, three times the cost of running a carrier plus the Harriers for four whole years.