The Falkland War?

[pete]

Let's not forget the Belgrano

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/813118.stm

Almost without doubt an illegal act of war....

No war is clean. & no war has ever or will ever stick to the rules of either Geneva or the Hague Conventions.

[SilverFox441]

Belgrano was a warship Pete...even if outside the exclusion Zone.

[eno]

The Belgrano was also steaming towards the exclusion zone........ therefore a threat. Ok it turned round but was still a threat .......

And if we want to talk illegal acts of war ....... well .... NOPE ... I'm not gonna get political.

[Hagar]

No war is clean. & no war has ever or will ever stick to the rules of either Geneva or the Hague Conventions.

Agreed. War is not some sort of game. It can bring out the best & worst in the human race. I never understood how rules or the law could be associated with it.

[ozzy72]

I'd have said the invasion was illegal, and frankly the situation was inevitable.
Alas its always the young men that go out to do, the politicians sit safely at home

[C]

What a coincidence - I attended an informal chat with Simon Weston the other day - he was very frank and open with his views on the war and the people that fought it.

An excellent evening...

Charlie

[Scorpiоn]

Agreed. War is not some sort of game. It can bring out the best & worst in the human race. I never understood how rules or the law could be associated with it.

I've always thought the concept of Rules of War to be an oxymoron in itself.

[4_Series_Scania]

We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.  ::)

[ATI_7500]

We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.  ::)

Another evidence that we're just animals.