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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Hey, the Falklands is the one I'm obsessed with and it's actually really interesting. Only "modern" war between near peers before ukraine.

Iran Iraq war also known as first gulf war?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Wut

The Iraqi army got absolutely obliterated

[-] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

That’s not the US led UN backed war following Iraq‘s invasion of Kuwait. Iran and Iraq had a long and brutal war with tanks, planes, helicopters, mines, trenches, and more in the 1980s.

[-] kalpol@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm sure you've come across it but David Hart Dyke's book on the loss of HMS Coventry is one of the more vivid depictions of grief I've read.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Near peers? Pretty sure there's a whole ocean separating Argentina and Britain, even if the islands where the conflict occurred were "just next door" to mainland Argentina.

[-] Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

That's not what the near in near peer means...

It's a measure of military capability between nations. A Near Peer would be a nation that shares similar capabilities for force projection or in otherwords the powerscale is 1:1.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

I think they meant "near" as in "evenly matched".

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