My dad's theory is that the Falklands War was probably based on false intelligence on the part of the Argentinians, deliberately fed to them by the CIA.
Thinking they could easily win the confilct, they went ahead and did it. The CIA of course, did this to topple the dictatorship in Argentina, which was taking all the CIA (under the table) funding for the war against communism in south america, without doing enough to stop it.
In fact, the Tupamaros had been infiltrated by Argentinian agents for some time, and were perpetuating a long dead socialist movement, just to keep getting the CIA's aid money.
So the Falklands War may well have been the CIA's revenge on a regime they no longer had any use for.
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