ABSTRACT
One of the most striking features of the Falkland Islands War was that in this modern age of electronic warfare, missiles, high performance aircraft and nuclear submarines, the decisive battles that, as Carl von Clausewitz put it, "led directly to peace" were won by the age-old infantry tactic of "closing with the enemy and destroying him by fire and maneuver". Port Stanley was located at the tip of a fifteen mile peninsula on the opposite side of East Falkland Island from the beachhead at San Carlos Water. From the beachhead at San Carlos Water on the west side of East Falkland Island, it was some forty miles to the first intermediate objectives, Mounts Estancia, Kent, and Challenger. Marine Major General Jeremy Moore, the designated land force commander, would complete the campaign plan when he arrived with the Army's 5th Infantry Brigade.
