Translated from Argentine Military Files (Operation Journeyman 1977)

The real reasons that led to Argentina's military dictatorship to begin recovery of the Falkland Islands in 1982 are really uncertain. Some researchers say that the operation "Alpha" (1) in the South Georgia and complication after the "incident Davidoff" accelerated any specific reaction, in other cases it comes to rivalries leadership level, while the most common theory is that of find an outlet to the pressure he was feeling the dictatorship because of the negative pressure of society that tolerated no longer a military government, and proven genocidal tendency.

 

However there are a host of situations that led to war at the least suitable for it, if there was any suitable time. For years she had waited for the chance to unlock the diplomatic negotiations in the Falklands, however, the interests of the Falkland Island Company, which dominated the socioeconomic situation of the islands almost above the government's interests, always blocked the British diplomatic moves and the situation again at the beginning. With the advent of the military to power, claims became increasingly intense and demanding, so much so that in more than one occasion the British diplomats were warned that continuing the inflexible position regarding the situation of the islands , the military junta would begin to irritate.

When in 1976 the Argentine established their presence in the South Sandwich Islands, known as the British South Thule, the situation began to worry more and more. In 1977, in a secret operation, the British dispatched to the South Atlantic to the F-42 frigate HMS "Phoebe" and the nuclear submarine S-101 "Dreadnought" intended to discourage any attempt Argentine action on Falklands, although the operation had its serious setbacks and not attracted much attention. By then, the relationship between the two countries began to cool considerably and is not to disregard the possibility that the operation "Alpha" has been developed since the start Argentina's sovereignty under the South Sandwich Islands.

As a measure of pressure, in 1979 Argentina began to decrease the frequency of flights of LADE (Lineas Aereas State) to the capital of the islands, also deliberately delayed the departure of a tanker bound for the same. In British reports after the Falklands War (Franks Report) recognized that the continuing obstacles to British negotiations had generated a climate of tension that had even been warned by the Argentine diplomatic circles informally and had been seated in many cases.

Thus, in 1981, the Argentina military junta had tired of the constant British diplomatic chicanery, therefore it is ordered to establish a Crisis Scenario, Hypothesis Hypothesis War Conflict and completely updated, as they had earlier documents, that would allow for an exit Forced to any deadlock in negotiations.

 

Immediately the Admiral Isaac Anaya presented a plan to recover the Falkland Islands by a surprise military action, quickly and completely bloodless and allowed to recover the islands to Argentina in a better position to resume diplomatic negotiations. The plans were not all bad, though the context in which the Argentine government was not the most suitable for that could be.