In 1982, Argentina, beset by its own economic woes and looking for a way to rally its people around the flag, launched a surprise attack on the Falkland Islands, a British crown colony since 1840 and occupied sporadically by British forces for decades before. The invasion caught the British—and the world—by surprise. Great Britain, which once controlled an empire upon which the sun never set and which once controlled the high seas, was caught flatfooted.
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