I'm no expert but I think GB is far better prepared for it this time if it went down again.

Last time the Arg initial success was due to achieving strategic suprise.  They can't count on that today or in the future.  Defence of FI does not depend of forces in place, it depends on intelligence and the ability to reinforce, including troops to use the pre-positioned equipment.  C17s and the just announced arrangements for A330 tpts/tankers mean the capability to reinforce is significant.  And if it happened forget 'harmony' guidelines, Arg would be facing thousands of battle hardened squaddies in bad humour, thinking 'make my day' and looking forward to meeting gang of Arg miltary virgins, Arg would get away with light casualties again.  Then there's the uncertainty, to Arg, of the lurking SSN(s).  Carriers are not even in the equation, to think this falls into the old trap of expecting the future to be like the past.  This earns a big fat F for failure to those who so think.

 

Of course there is a real issues here, oil, and it seems increasingly likely that the FI EZ contains lots of it and the technolguy to get at it is now basically available.  Arg are going to go bananas over this (filthy gringos stealing 'our' oil, etc, etc), and expect everyone's favourite dictator, Hugo Chavez to be shouting the odds big time in Arg favour.  Now how will this play in the US? :-)

I always believed from my readings the Brits won because their soldiers much better trained and performed better from the Generals to the privates. The Brits were also lucky that so many of the Argentine bombs were duds 

Any move on the Falklands by Argentina would be fool-hardy and doomed to fail.  Their Air Force and Navy are in very poor condition these days.  I think that flying up against Tornados out of Stanley would be a losing proposition - much less trying to work past the SSN force the UK can muster.  One can only imagine what havoc the Eurofighter would inflict on any invasion forces.

 

The last go around brought an embargo from the US and Argentina would not survive the economic chaos of a similar embargo today.  Frankly, the US would loan you the Kitty Hawk if asked.

 

The speech was bluster intended to boost morale and support - typical.  Until the Falkland islanders themselves vote for union with Argentina the islands will remain British.  Not likely any time in the future - near or distant.

If you can get specops teams in to spot, then you can start going after aircraft shelters and useful things.

A tomahawk may be an inefficient way of delivering a 1000lb bomb, but when the other options involve refuelling operations from Ascension, outside the ferry range of the available strike aircraft, it's not so bad.

Yeah, until our papers told the Argies about the problem and they worked out how to fuse them properly.  I think the Royal Navy is still p!ssed about that!!!!!!