The Falklands War
The final death throes of the British Empire and its legacy
5 min readJun 16, 2022
It was forty years ago, I was a young man of 24, when the British Falkland Islands were invaded by Argentina’s military junta, desperate to prop up their own failing power base.
200 years of imperial history had claimed the Falklands as part of Britain. The three thousand islanders wished to remain under the…
