SKST 6504 2016 GROUP WORK GRADING GUIDE SHEET

Part 1
Intro/Conclusion
1
2
3
4

Background
Scope
Link to discussion
Conclusion/deduction

Reflection to the
requirement of paper
Total
Part 2
Discussion
1
Comprehensiveness
2

Mar
k
2
2
2
2
2

Clear and concise intro to the topic

State the scope of the paper
Link the intro to the discussion
Clear representation of discussion with sound
deductions
Able to fulfill the requirement of the paper

10
Mark
3

Criteria
- Review the source
- Presented concepts/theories
- Able to reconstruct the subject

Analysis
- Flow of thoughts

- Empirical evident

Comprehensiveness of
research

- Merely mention points of discussion

- Able to analyze the subject
- At least 1 from reliable source
- More than 2 from reliable sources
- Summarize the points deliberated
- Link to concepts/theories
- Presented methodical analysis

Total
Part 3
Style
1
Format

Mark
1

2
3

1
1

Grammar/Spelling
Gaya UKM/Bibliography

Word Count
Total
Part 4
Presentation
1
Clarity of presentation
2
3

Criteria

Quality of slides
Time management
Total

10

1
4
Mark
2
2
2
6

Criteria
Coherent essay that consist of Intro, Body and
Conclusion
Minimum grammatical and spelling errors
Generally comply to Gaya UKM/minimum 3 reliable
sources
500 words - 1/ beyond- 0
Criteria
All 5 participated/Clear and logical flow/Responded to
questions
Minimum errors/Assisted delivery/Appropriateness
2 min 2 marks/ 4 min 1 mark/ beyond - 0

Course participants are to make analysis on the given topic on these factors:
Strategy and concepts of war applied during the war.
How social, economic, leadership and politics influenced the outcome of that war. What
are the lessons learnt.

Group 1 6504 Falklands War 1982

Lt Col Azman bin Jantan RMAF (372188) (Leader)
Lt Col Noor Sazali bin Puteh (3003130)
Lt Col Azaman bin Jaafar (3003652)
Cdr Ee Chee Kiong RMN N/402303
Lt Col (U) Haji Alirupendi bin Haji Perudin 412
Pre-reading on Falklands War
http://www.falklandswar.org.uk/
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/battleswars1900s/p/falklands.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War
http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-falklands-30-years-later/
http://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/259/260/263/brooks2.pdf
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1982/dec/14/the-falklands-campaign-the-lessonscmnd
http://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2922&context=all_theses

Proposed timeline
26 May Initial Framework agreement, Task distribution
9 Jun Progress update and feedback
23 Jun Feedback and data compilation for individual tasks
2-10 Jul Semester Break / Aidilfitri
11-13 Jul Finalize presentation (this is due to we have MPAT nite 15 Jul and then Field
study to East Malaysia 17 to 24 Jul, so we need to finish before those dates)
24 Jul Rehearsal Final for 25 Jul Presentation
Reminder:
Please note citations when compiling data for ease of referencing. This includes not just the
text or article references but also for maps, charts, images etc. Also please compile and share
bibliographies/references so that we can properly cite in the presentation later.

The Falklands War, also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, and South
Atlantic War, was a ten week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two
British overseas territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and
the South Sandwich Islands. It began on Friday, 2 April 1982, when Argentina invaded and
occupied the Falkland Islands (and, the following day, South Georgia and the South
Sandwich Islands) in an attempt to establish the sovereignty it had claimed over them. On 5
April, the British government dispatched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and
Air Force before making an amphibious assault on the islands. The conflict lasted 74 days
and ended with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982, returning the islands to British
control. In total, 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel, and three
Falkland Islanders died during the hostilities.
The conflict was a major episode in the protracted confrontation over the territories'
sovereignty. Argentina asserted (and maintains) that the islands are Argentine territory,[6] and
the Argentine government thus characterised its military action as the reclamation of its own
territory. The British government regarded the action as an invasion of a territory that had
been a Crown colony since 1841. Falkland Islanders, who have inhabited the islands since the
early 19th century, are predominantly descendants of British settlers, and favour British
sovereignty. Neither state, however, officially declared war (both sides did declare the Islands
areas a war zone and officially recognised that a state of war existed between them) and
hostilities were almost exclusively limited to the territories under dispute and the area of the
South Atlantic where they lie.
The conflict has had a strong impact in both countries and has been the subject of various
books, articles, films, and songs. Patriotic sentiment ran high in Argentina, but the outcome
prompted large protests against the ruling military government, hastening its downfall. In the
United Kingdom, the Conservative Party government, bolstered by the successful outcome,
was reelected the following year. The cultural and political weight of the conflict has had less
effect in Britain than in Argentina, where it remains a continued topic for discussion.[7]
Relations between the United Kingdom and Argentina were restored in 1989 following a
meeting in Madrid, Spain, at which the two countries' governments issued a joint statement.
[8] No change in either country's position regarding the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands
was made explicit. In 1994, Argentina's claim to the territories was added to its constitution.
[9]
In the period leading up to the war and, in particular, following the transfer of power
between the military dictators General Jorge Rafael Videla and General Roberto Eduardo
Viola late in March 1981 Argentina had been in the midst of a devastating economic
stagnation and large scale civil unrest against the military junta that had been governing the
country since 1976.[13] In December 1981 there was a further change in the Argentine
military regime bringing to office a new junta headed by General Leopoldo Galtieri (acting
president), Brigadier Basilio Lami Dozo and Admiral Jorge Anaya. Anaya was the main
architect and supporter of a military solution for the longstanding claim over the islands,[14]
calculating that the United Kingdom would never respond militarily.[15]

The Argentine destroyer ARA Santsima Trinidad landed Special Forces south of Stanley By
opting for military action, the Galtieri government hoped to mobilise the longstanding
patriotic feelings of Argentines towards the islands, and thus divert public attention from the
country's chronic economic problems and the regime's ongoing human rights violations.[16]
Such action would also bolster its dwindling legitimacy. The newspaper La Prensa speculated
in a stepbystep plan beginning with cutting off supplies to the Islands, ending in direct actions
late in 1982, if the UN talks were fruitless.[17]
The ongoing tension between the two countries over the islands increased on 19 March when
a group of Argentine scrap metal merchants (actually infiltrated by Argentine marines) raised
the Argentine flag at South Georgia, an act that would later be seen as the first offensive
action in the war. The Royal Navy ice patrol vessel HMS Endurance was dispatched from
Stanley to South Georgia in response, subsequently leading to the invasion of South Georgia
by Argentine forces on 3 April. The Argentine military junta, suspecting that the UK would
reinforce its South Atlantic Forces,[18] ordered the invasion of the Falkland Islands to be
brought forward to 2 April.
Britain was initially taken by surprise by the Argentine attack on the South Atlantic islands,
despite repeated warnings by Royal Navy captain Nicholas Barker and others. Barker
believed that Defence Secretary John Nott's 1981 review (in which Nott described plans to
withdraw the Endurance, Britain's only naval presence in the South Atlantic) sent a signal to
the Argentines that Britain was unwilling, and would soon be unable, to defend its territories
and subjects in the Falklands.[19][20]

'It would have been absurd to despatch the fleet every time there was bellicose talk in
Buenos Aires.' Margaret Thatcher Speech 3 Apr 1982
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104910
The principal policy lesson of the Falklands is clear. Political leaders, especially in
democracies, must respond to public opinion and other domestic pressures. However, leaders
who allow themselves to shape foreign policies primarily in terms of these internal
considerations court disaster at home and abroad as such policies are likely to bear only a
chance resemblance to the needs of the nation
Richard Ned Lebow (1983) Miscalculation in the South Atlantic: The origins of the Falkland
War, Journal of Strategic Studies, 6:1, 5-35,
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01402398308437139

Where is the Falklands

Why is it important for Argentina
Why is it important for Britain
Why Argentina went to war
Why Britain went to war
What was Argentinas strategy and concept of war

What was Britains strategy and concept of war

How did the social / society influence the war on Argentina and Britain
How did economic factor influences the war
How did leadership influences the war
How did politics influences the war
What are the lessons identified and must be learned from the 1982 Falklands War