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The Falklands War, following the Argentine military occupation of disputed British territory in the South Atlantic,  involved the biggest British naval deployment since WW2, lasted 74 days and  cost the lives  649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel, and three Falkland Islanders . It ended in British victory, the collapse of Argentina’s military regime, and contributed to Mrs Thatcher’s reelection  as prime-minister. To a new generation of young  European adults, the Falklands War not only barely features in their collective memory, but is largely ignored as a subject worth …

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