ABSTRACT
In the United States, a great deal of time and money has been spent on studying the lessons of the Falklands campaign. In the eternal dialectic between the attack and the defense, the Theodosian walls surrounding Constantinople remain unique in their span of supremacy. Senior US Navy officials insist that the campaign has proved the need to build big carrier battle groups. The Royal Navy, as skilled, sophisticated and experienced as the US Navy, was for weeks unable to destroy a single German-built Argentine conventional submarine which was stalking the British task force. The US Navy should, in addition, concern itself more with the state of the US merchant fleet. The Falklands again confirmed the need for heavy naval gunfire support of ground troops; this has been neglected over the years in the United States, and has been of great concern to the US Marine Corps.
