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Warfare, 103–4; Borgart, “The Vulnerability,” 1066; and Pushpindar Chopra,
“Journal of an Air War,” Air Enthusiast, April 1972, 177–83, 206.
30. Great Britain, Ministry of Defence, The Falklands Campaign: The
Lessons (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1982), annex B, AUL; and
Dov Zakheim, “The South Atlantic: Evaluating the Lessons” (paper presented
at Southern Methodist University Conference on The Three Wars of
1982: Lessons to be Learned, Dallas, Tex., 15 April 1983), 29.
31. Jeffrey Ethell and Alfred Price, Air War South Atlantic (New York:
Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), 146.
32. Ibid., 180–81; David Brown, “Countermeasures Aided British Fleet,”
Aviation Week, 19 July 1982, 18; “British Government on Performance of
Roland, Rapier in Falklands,” Aerospace Daily, 27 October 1982, 309;
“British SAMs Credited with Most Kills in Falklands Conflict,” Aerospace
Daily, 9 August 1982, 211; Insight Team of the Sunday Times (London), War
in the Falklands (Cambridge, Mass.: Harper and Row Publishers, 1982), 201;
Ministry of Defence, Falklands Campaign, 19, annex C; Derek Wood and
Mark Hewish, “The Falklands Conflict, pt. 1: The Air War,” International Defense
Review 8 (1982): 978, 980; Brian Moore, “The Falklands War: The Air
Defense Role,” Air Defense Artillery (Winter 1983): 19; “Blowpipe Draws Commendation
for Falklands Performance,” Aerospace Daily, 12 August 1982,
239; and David Griffiths, “Layered Air Defense Keyed British Falklands Victory,”
Defense Week, 30 August 1982, 13. The French claimed that nine
Roland missiles downed four Harriers and damaged another, a claim fiercely
disputed by the British. Interestingly, the British had attempted to sell their
Rapier missile to the Argentines. See “Euromissile on Performance of Roland
in Falklands, Middle East,” Aerospace Daily, 23 September 1982, 126; “Exocet,
Roland Combat Performance Rated High,” Aviation Week, 1 November 1982,
26; and Anthony Cordesman, “The Falklands: The Air War and Missile Conflict,”
Armed Forces Journal International, September 1982, 40.
33. Anthony Cordesman and Abraham Wagner, The Lessons of Modern War,
vol. 3, The Afghan and Falklands Conflicts (Boulder: Westview, 1990), 337–38;
Brad Roberts, “The Military Implications of the Falklands/Malvinas Island Conflict,”
report no. 82-140F, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress,
August 1982, 15, AUL; Cordesman, “The Falklands,” 33, 35; Steward Menaul,
“The Falklands Campaign: A War of Yesterday?” Strategic Review (Fall 1982):
87–88; Wood and Hewish, “The Falklands Conflict, pt. 1,” 978; Ezio Bonsignore,
“Hard Lessons from the South Atlantic,” Military Technology, June 1982, 32;
John Guilmartin, “The South Atlantic War: Lessons and Analytical Guideposts,
A Military Historian’s Perspective,” 17, Southern Methodist University
Conference, April 1983; Ethell and Price, Air War South Atlantic, 120–21,
183, 217–18; and Jesus Briasco and Salvador Huertas, Falklands: Witness
of Battles (Valencia, Spain: Domenech, 1985), 172.
34. Guilmartin, “The South Atlantic,” 12; and Ethell and Price, Air War
South Atlantic, 179.
35. I have relied primarily on the official British reports for the statistics.
See Ministry of Defence, Falklands Campaign, annex B. See also the figures,
178