Team Who Planned Victory Were Driven by Will to Succeed

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"ONE morning I was scraping my beard before going into work and I had the radio on. I heard that the Argentinians had invaded the Falklands Islands. I can't say the Falklands were appearing on my radar screen prior to that really, as was the case with a lot of other people too."

That was how General Sir Richard Trant, who was soon to become Deputy Commander in Chief (Land), learned the news that Britain was about to go to war. On that day, April 2, 1982, Sir Richard was based in Aldershot. Then a lieutenant general, he was GOC (General Officer Commanding) South East England.

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Team Who Planned Victory Were Driven by Will to Succeed

"Our preoccupations were mostly do to with the reinforcement of BAOR (British Army on the Rhine) if the balloon went up," he explained.

"We were working out of a joint force headquarters, which didn't exist in those days except on an ad hoc basis, and we were beginning to plan a major exercise up in Scotland.

"The thi...

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