{"id":45,"date":"2018-01-07T12:26:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albertodevita.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2018-12-01T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T15:27:07","slug":"quinto-mito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malvinas1982.org\/en\/quinto-mito\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"

MYTH FIFTH: THE \u201cGUYS\u201d OF THE WAR<\/h1>\n
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  1. Why were they sent?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    When I started working with the gral. Galtieri as a lawyer (April 1983), one of the first questions that<\/div>\n
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    I did \u2013 if it wasn't the first \u2013 it was: \u201cGeneral, why did they send conscripts?<\/div>\n
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    He explained it to me.<\/div>\n
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    He told me: "Dr.: on 4.23.82 the Naval Intelligence Service (SIN) described an encrypted message from General Pinochet addressed to<\/div>\n
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    to all the Chilean Armed Forces: land, sea, air and police, ordering them to prepare to "support<\/div>\n
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    openly or covertly to Great Britain\u201d (the Fleet arrived on the 25th.).<\/div>\n
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    That is why the best Argentine troops - the most experienced and equipped -, were left in the mountains, for the<\/div>\n
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    fear of having to face a second front\u201d-<\/div>\n
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    This was confirmed by testimonies before the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (incorporated into case no.<\/div>\n
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    59 of the Federal Chamber), by the grals. Vaquero, Garcia, and other senior officers.<\/div>\n
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    But also, over the years and thanks to the information that has come to light, it was confirmed<\/div>\n
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    Chilean support for the British Fleet.<\/div>\n
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    2. It is a derogatory, disqualifying and partial concept.<\/div>\n
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    It is partial because not all the brave Argentines who fought in Malvinas were "boys".<\/div>\n
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    The heroic pilots of the Argentine Air Force, the Naval Aviation, the Argentine Navy, the<\/div>\n
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    Merchant marine, infantry personnel, artillery, BIM 5, they were not \u201cboys\u201d. They were men.<\/div>\n
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    And the "boys" performed, fully, as men.<\/div>\n
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    I am of the opinion that the British government should have applauded the decision of that great son of the Fatherland<\/div>\n
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    as was Carlos Sa\u00fal Menem, having abolished compulsory military service in Argentina (true "quarry"<\/div>\n
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    of lions).<\/div>\n
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    3. THE PERFORMANCE.<\/div>\n
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    Was there any other time the British Empire faced war "boys"?<\/div>\n
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    Yes, saving geographical and cultural distances.<\/div>\n
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    It was January 22, 1879: Battle of Isandhlwana in South Africa.<\/div>\n
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    Great Britain, in search of economic resources (never for democracy or human rights), tried to<\/div>\n
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    appropriate these resources \u2013 mainly minerals \u2013 in Zulu territory (Zululand), in South Africa.<\/div>\n
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    He found himself opposed by the owners of those lands: the Zulu tribes, who did not agree with the dispossession.<\/div>\n
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    To convince them, the British government sent one of its best regiments \u2013 1,200 men and 900 auxiliaries -,<\/div>\n
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    armed with the most modern weapons of the time: cannons, machine guns, rifles, pistols.<\/div>\n
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    Opposite were the Zulu tribes: barefoot, clad in loincloths, and armed with spears and shields.<\/div>\n
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    Then the battle of Isandhlwana took place.<\/div>\n
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    There were no survivors from the British side. None survived.<\/div>\n
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    In the Malvinas, the British casualties are far from being the 240\/250 that they mention (for a reason the state secret with<\/div>\n
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    Regarding the events of 1982, it lasted for 90 years, when the normal was 30).<\/div>\n
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    The German magazine "Stern" (1984) gives a British loss estimate of around 1,500 men.<\/div>\n
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    Captain Robacio and Admiral Busser mention the same on the basis of conversations held with<\/div>\n
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    British officers when they were taken prisoner (talks between comrades, after firing ceased)<\/div>\n
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    4. THE MAGNITUDE OF THE EPIC.<\/div>\n
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    The Argentine people have no idea of the magnitude of the epic that he starred in, among others, with the \u201cboys\u201d.<\/div>\n
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    We hardly remember that in 1806 and 1807 the population of this "village at the end of the world" kicked out of Buenos Aires<\/div>\n
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    Aires to the second army in the world.<\/div>\n
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    In Malvinas, the epic is gigantic.<\/div>\n
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    Suffice it to say that Britain's last naval defeats were in 1941, when the German battleship "Bismarck"<\/div>\n
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    He sank the cruiser "Hood" and in 1942 when the Zero fighters of the Japanese Navy sank two jewels:<\/div>\n
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    the \u201cRenown\u201d and the \u201cPrince of Wales\u201d.<\/div>\n
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    It will take 40 years to reach the enormous British naval losses in the San Carlos Strait and in<\/div>\n
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    Pleasant Bay (\u201cthe blackest day in the Fleet\u201d).<\/div>\n
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    As for ground losses, the last suffered by the British were in September 1944, in the<\/div>\n
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    arnhem bridge.<\/div>\n
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    It was an operation devised by Marshal Montgomery to reach Germany from the north, for this<\/div>\n
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    they had to cross three bridges in the Netherlands: Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem.<\/div>\n
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    These 'bridges were to be captured and held by paratrooper troops (American, Polish and British),<\/div>\n
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    while a column of armored vehicles advanced along the highway until they reached the bridges.<\/div>\n
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    British Intelligence gave the go-ahead for the operation. They were wrong.<\/div>\n
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    The British paratroopers who descended with the mission of capturing the Arnhem bridge did so at the<\/div>\n
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    You will see a forest where an SS Panzer Division was resting.<\/div>\n
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    The British had 9,000 casualties, although some estimate 16,000.<\/div>\n
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    Again, it will take 40 years to reach the Malvinas.<\/div>\n
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    5. Finally, in all these years, it has been publicly recognized that without the help of the US and Chile, Great<\/div>\n
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    Britain would have had to withdraw from the Malvinas.<\/div>\n
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    That is, it would have been defeated.<\/div>\n
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    Among other bravos, for the "boys" of the war.<\/div>\n
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    QUINTO MITO: LOS “CHICOS” DE LA GUERRA \u00bf Por qu\u00e9 fueron enviados ? Cuando comenc\u00e9 a trabajar con el gral. Galtieri como abogado (abril de 1983), una de las primeras preguntas que le hice – si no fue la primera – fue : “General, \u00bf por qu\u00e9 mandaron conscriptos ?. Me lo explic\u00f3. Me dijo: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malvinas","category-mitos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinas1982.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinas1982.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinas1982.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinas1982.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinas1982.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/malvinas1982.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinas1982.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malvinas1982.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinas1982.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malvinas1982.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}