Lessons Of The Falklands War

This book constituting a review on the event of Falklands War in 1982, is trying to reveal the facts that the occurrence of such a war was caused by the political and military miscalculations. General Leopoldo Galtieri had a strategic assumption that he was so confident about, namely that the military force planned to seize Falklands would not make British mobilize its military power, but it would settle it down at the negotiation. And the quick response of British becomes the main factor determining its victory in Falklands. The occurrence of Argentinean invasion to Falklands was due to the fact that Clausewitz’s teaching on war are still valid. The Clausewitz’s concept about a war contains three principles, and can be illustrated in the form of Model of War Triangle. Outputs of this study are expected to be able to be used in the efforts to settle the problems containing the dispute potency among countries, so that the unnecessary victims and losses can be prevented from happening among the parties in dispute.