Detail Short, Victorious War; Thirty Years after the Falklands War   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 402 no. 8778 (Mar. 2012), page 61-62. Topik: Impact Analysis; War; Bilateral Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.71 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel When Adrian Mole, a fictional teenage diarist of the early 1980s, tells his father that the Falkland Islands have been invaded, Mr Mole shoots out of bed. He "thought the Falklands lay off the coast of Scotland". That Britain still had sovereignty over a clutch of islands in the South Atlantic did, indeed, seem odd. Sending a naval task force 8,000 miles to fight for a thinly inhabited imperial relic seemed odder still. In some ways the conflict has come to seem even stranger since 1982. Yet for all its eccentricity, the Falklands campaign still shapes the politics of Britain. Among historians, the main debates about the war's legacy concern Mrs Thatcher and her Conservative government. But the conflict also changed attitudes to foreign policy and war itself. The dash across the Atlantic and subsequent victory--almost as much of a surprise to many Britons as they were to the Argentines--seemed to mark an end to Britain's apparently inevitable international decline, a retreat epitomised by the Suez debacle of 1956. After the 1970s, a decade in which, Europe aside, British leaders had mostly been preoccupied with domestic woes--recession; industrial unrest; an IMF bail-out--the Falklands made foreign affairs, and Britain's clout in the world, measures of successful leadership. That has remained the case ever since. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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