All for one, one for all. Argentine Navy operations during the Falklands/Malvinas war
Year: 2021 Language: English Author: Jorge Boveda Format: PDF Quality: eBook Number of pages: 90 Description: As the son of an officer of the Argentine Naval Academy’s class of 1945, it is an honour for me to write the foreword to this important work by Jorge Bóveda, who investigates the causes and consequences of a recent and painful chapter of our naval history. On the other hand, as a political scientist who has studied the impact of cultural variables on political and operational outcomes, I have found it particularly interesting to immerse myself in this research that contributes to the understanding of a serious national frustration. Bóveda´s analysis is sensitive to successes and failures of the key admirals of our navy. He spares no substantive criticism and never falls into the temptation of easy praise. Looking ahead, his observations generate knowledge that enables an important transfer from the academic sector to the military sector. The spirit that guides the work is related to that of the Athenian Thucydides, who created scientific historiography by removing mythology from the study of history. Athens lost its Peloponnesian war just as Argentina lost its Falklands/Malvinas War. Similarly, in their stories, Thucydides and Bóveda draw strength from weaknesses, without allowing the reveries of false patriotisms to sterilise the fecundity of their analysis. Bóveda claims for Argentina the recovery of a full national state status. With good reason, he suggests that if by failing to make the investments needed to keep ourselves strong, we abdicate from our defence, we will become something less than a state, informally subordinated to more orderly and sensible neighbours who did not commit our self-destructive errors.
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All for one, one for all. Argentine Navy operations during the Falklands/Malvinas war
Language: English
Author: Jorge Boveda
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Number of pages: 90
Description: As the son of an officer of the Argentine Naval Academy’s class of 1945, it is an honour for me to write the foreword to this important work by Jorge Bóveda, who investigates the causes and consequences of a recent and painful chapter of our naval history. On the other hand, as a political scientist who has studied the impact of cultural variables on political and operational outcomes, I have found it particularly interesting to immerse myself in this research that contributes to the understanding of a serious national frustration.
Bóveda´s analysis is sensitive to successes and failures of the key admirals of our navy. He spares no substantive criticism and never falls into the temptation of easy praise. Looking ahead, his observations generate knowledge that enables an important transfer from the academic sector to the military sector.
The spirit that guides the work is related to that of the Athenian Thucydides, who created scientific historiography by removing mythology from the study of history. Athens lost its Peloponnesian war just as Argentina lost its Falklands/Malvinas War. Similarly, in their stories, Thucydides and Bóveda draw strength from weaknesses, without allowing the reveries of false patriotisms to sterilise the fecundity of their analysis.
Bóveda claims for Argentina the recovery of a full national state status. With good reason, he suggests that if by failing to make the investments needed to keep ourselves strong, we abdicate from our defence, we will become something less than a state, informally subordinated to more orderly and sensible neighbours who did not commit our self-destructive errors.
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