Lessons from the Malvinas air-naval war
The Malvinas Air and Naval War alternated concepts still belonging to the military thinking of the Second World War with the staging of the most recent anti-ship missile systems such as the Exocet. It was also the testing ground that combined traditional weaponry with the new technology of air-naval warfare, and as a theoretically smaller navy, it could be a serious threat to a superior sea power. From a legal perspective, the obsolescence and lack of definition of the regulations that regulated war at sea were evident. The scenario brought into question the lack of updated international maritime warfare legislation, being the baptism of fire for international jurisprudence regarding the deployment of hospital ships in a war scenario, and how states largely depend on merchant fleets for the logistical transport or Sealift in crisis episodes. In parallel, the theory of prepositioning of [Keep reading…]