I was just reading an artical about Ronald Reagan and cam across this extract

There was however one teensy problem with the plan. The previous decades' neglect of the British military had left the logistics cupboards bare. There simply was not enough ammunition to fight such a series of battles. We turned to plucky little Belgium, a country we had gone to war for once and liberated twice (with help of course) in the previous century and were told no, selling ammo to a fellow NATO member would be immoral if it were for "colonial" purposes. This from the heirs to Leopold II! There were also persistent rumors of French supplies for the Argentine Exocet missiles being rushed through in the lead up to the fighting, something you might imagine did not go down too well, especially after it was just those missiles which killed most of those Brits who died down there.

 

It was American SecDef Caspar Weinberger who came up with the solution, that the US would open its armory to us. President Reagan needed persuading, and there is no shame in that, a man thinking through the options as to what exactly is the right thing before doing it. So it was that an assortment of Majors and Commanders (the sort of ranks that do these things) were instructed to simply phone the US storehouses for whatever they wanted and the store men were to provide them. Paperwork could wait and invoices would be sent later. The base on Ascension Island was made available (while the island was another Brit colony, the base was US) and the invasion fleet was able to sail and the battle won.

 

I never heard this about Belgium before! Is is true? does anyone else have any details?

http://www.fcsworld.com/main.htm

I have never heard of it. Obviously the FAL's were Belgian, but we could have got the NATO standard 7.62mm ammo of anybody.

The article also brings up the usual bull**** about France and Exocets.

Where is the article from?

You also have to remember that while the French Exocets killed many British servicemen, how many were killed by American Skyhawks. And if the weather hadn't of changed how many would have been killed by the ex British aircraft carrier, or 2 Type 42 destroyers we had sold them. Not to mention British Canberra bombers and Blowpipe SAM's. LOL

Yes I know it was totaly wrong about about France, they helped us no end stoping exorcets geting deliverd and sending aircraft to train about. I had just never heard anythin like this about the Belgens, I had always asumed we had f*cking huge stocks of 7.62 hanging around to fight the Soviets with in Europe

It was actualy an artical from a Tech website, I will have to re find the link

http://www.fcsworld.com/main.htm

"Yes I know it was totaly wrong about about France, they helped us no end stoping exorcets geting deliverd and sending aircraft to train about"

Total nonsense we didn't delivered any exocet to argentina after they invaded british territory. There were only five exocets delivered prior to the war, there was a group of french engineers in argentina but they were given orders not to help the argentinian fixed the exocet but to mislead them. THe argentinian pilot Colombo in an interview done by a british acknoledge that the french were of no help whatsoever . Facts out of 5 exocets, the large majority of exocet malfunction. We also give the british a list of exocets available on the market so that they could buy all them and prevent it from reaching argentina. Tell me why we would help argentina
anyway. If Argentina had succeeded, brazil or some south american might think they can also invade french guyana.

The Belgians also refused to sell us ammo when we went to Iraq...

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