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This is tossed at the wall strictly as a comparative exercise & examination of the French military of the early 1980s. But lets assume the Falkland islands were French territory & events fell out the same through the Argentinian occupation. The French make the same decision to retake the islands.
So, what would the French forces look like and what would the differences in doctrine & execution be?