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Originally Posted by Rainbow Six
The Falklands Islands Government's own website states that the islands are self sufficient in all areas except defence, which comes out of the UK defence budget.
http://www.falklands.gov.fk/Economy.html |
That is in no way surprising. The FIDF is a small force that count between 80-200 members. From what I read, it is strictly a territorial unit taking up a lot of tasks with most of them faling under the domain of civil defense.
In 1982, they were ordered to surrender by the governor but members who had not been taken under custody, played their role as informant/scouts (or so it is said).
The bulk of the island defense indeed comes from UK (RN, RAF and British Army). However, they will be of some interest in the case of T2K. Strictly speaking I have just been writing exactly the smae thing than Stainlesteelcynic.
