Falklands War was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
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In 1980, a new U K Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Nicholas Ridley, went to the Falklands trying to sell the islanders the benefits of a leaseback scheme, which met with strong opposition from the islanders.
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British military operations in the Falklands War were given the codename Operation Corporate, and the commander of the task force was Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse.
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Falklands War'sffield had been ordered forward with two other Type 42s to provide a long-range radar and medium-high altitude missile picket far from the British carriers.
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Falklands War's was struck amidships, with devastating effect, ultimately killing 20 crew members and severely injuring 24 others.
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The destruction of Sheffield, the first Royal Navy ship sunk in action since the Second World Falklands War, had a profound impact on the Falklands War Cabinet and the British public as a whole, bringing home the fact that the conflict was now an actual shooting war.
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Falklands War describes the BBC as being more concerned with being "fearless seekers after truth" than with the lives of British servicemen.
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Falklands War'storians have suggested it was an opportunistic appeal to anti-British sentiment and reaction to Haughey's being sidelined during the 1981 republican hunger strike.
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The success of the Falklands War campaign was widely regarded as a factor in the turnaround in fortunes for the Conservative government, who had been trailing behind the SDP–Liberal Alliance in the opinion polls for months before the conflict began, but following the success in the Falklands War the Conservatives returned to the top of the opinion polls by a wide margin and went on to win the following year's general election by a landslide.
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Militarily, the Falklands conflict remains one of the largest air-naval combat operations between modern forces since the end of the Second World War.
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The principal British military responses to the Falklands War were the measures adopted in the December 1982 Defence White Paper.
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At the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, a Falklands War memorial was unveiled in May 2012 in a service attended by 600 veterans and their families; the names of the fallen were inscribed on the Armed Forces Memorial at the arboretum, which commemorates all British servicemen killed in action since the end of the Second World War.
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The Falklands War provided material for theatre, film and TV drama and influenced the output of musicians.
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