Combat experiences of the Argentine Army campaign artillery in the in the Malvinas/Falklands War

SOPRANO, GERMÁN

The Falklands/Malvinas War in the South Atlantic

Palgrave Macmillan

Lugar: London; Año: 2021; p. 15 - 50

This chapter aims to build a historical and ethnographic study of the Argentine Army?s 3rd Artillery Group members? combat experiences during the Falklands/Malvinas War. On the one hand, I analyze the importance of the adequate and intense instruction and training of the personnel and the enlistment of 3rd Artillery Group before the war, on its outstanding combat performance. On the other hand, I seek to understand the positive impact of the leadership of its commander Lieutenant Colonel Martín Antonio Balza?who later was head of the Argentine Army between 1991 and 1999?on officers? experiences, non-commissioned officers, and conscripted soldiers. I hypothesize that there was a conventional combatant capability at the tactical level in some units of the Argentine Army.