When it comes to the V1 version, I'm inclined to think that the August 1997 reinforcement might have taken two forms - you have the open and public deployment of a TA Infantry Battalion and (possibly) a small number of RN Sea Harriers, and then you have the covert action - most likely the deployment of an RN hunter killer submarine to the South Atlantic, with a message relayed to the Argentines through remaining diplomatic channels that if they attempt an amphibious landing their fleet will be sent to the bottom of the South Atlantic (starting with the troopships). And in the event that wasn't enough to deter them, there's the hint of nuclear attack on the Argentine mainland.
To me, these are the things more likely to deter the Argentines. Whether a submarine is available to be sent to the South Atlantic in summer / autumn 1997 is of course highly debatable, but the thing is one doesn't neccessarily have to be...it could be a bluff on the part of the British Government...question is whether the Argentine Government would risk calling that bluff.
With regard to V2, the thought does cross my mind that a campaign set in the Argentine occupied Falklands would be something a little different from the norm...
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