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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Hey, the Falklands is the one I'm obsessed with and it's actually really interesting. Only "modern" war between near peers before ukraine.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I'm sure you've come across it but David Hart Dyke's book on the loss of HMS Coventry is one of the more vivid depictions of grief I've read.

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Iran Iraq war also known as first gulf war?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Wut

The Iraqi army got absolutely obliterated

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

That’s not the US led UN backed war following Iraq‘s invasion of Kuwait. Iran and Iraq had a long and brutal war with tanks, planes, helicopters, mines, trenches, and more in the 1980s.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Near peers? Pretty sure there's a whole ocean separating Argentina and Britain, even if the islands where the conflict occurred were "just next door" to mainland Argentina.

[–] Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

That's not what the near in near peer means...

It's a measure of military capability between nations. A Near Peer would be a nation that shares similar capabilities for force projection or in otherwords the powerscale is 1:1.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

I think they meant "near" as in "evenly matched".