Twenty years on: The Falklands war in perspective

Panel Discussion

Introduction

21 May 2002 was the twentieth anniversary of the landing of British troops at San Carlos Water, which marked the beginning of the ground offensive of the Falklands War. On the same day in 2002 RUSI commemorated that war with a Panel Discussion at lunchtime. The Chairman was Rear Admiral Sam Salt CB who had been Commanding Officer of HMS Sheffield, sunk in the early stages of the war. The meeting began with a period of silence in memory of those...