You know
I'm red-teaming you guys to refine the conop, right? Keep it coming, including your errors.
Nothing insurmountable I see, so far. There are more ways to solve the problem than just charge at them at one go. One can take the problem one step at a time. It is called the phased approach.
Ever hear of CARTWHEEL?
Because someone did not take preventive action when the warning signs were there, a costly and I mean costly operation in phases had to occur to retrieve a situation.
The step method works better when it is a long logistics problem in time and distance. It just takes that time when you have terrain, logistics bottlenecks, inexperienced political and military leadership and lack of means to carry forward by coup de main which is what Corporate tried and failed to do. Whether MacArthur or Woodward, whether hemorrhagic fever or frostbite, whether jungle or tundra, whether bog marsh or glacier, in practical terms you find the nearest useable (not ideal, USEABLE ground,), build an airstrip, gather supplies and forces forward, throw planes in there for air cover and projections and bound forward under that land based air cover. You do not risk carriers unless it is necessary, and then
only long enough to get ashore and seize another airfield. You guys keep
missing the central concept. Get the Stanley airfield the quickest and cheapest way possible and then FLY in your reinforcements. Corporate was not the quickest way to do it. Nor was it the cheapest with the means to hand. As for the weather, the Argentinians have the same problems as the British. Deal with it. If
Operation Frostbite is any guide metric to the complaints the againsters raise, then Plan South Georgia is actually A CAKEWALK in 1983.
The USN did it, repeatedly (
Mainbrace.). I am not the one
selling the RN/RAF short here. You guys are.
P.S. Minesweeping is an old art-form, land or sea. And Mister Chinook carries you over the beach.
What about Shorads? THAT is why you bombed and NGSed the Argentinians before you started your over the beach assault. Nothing is impossible. You just have to plan for it, Red-team.