On April 2nd, 1982, Argentinian forces invaded the British overseas territory of the Falkland Islands.

Despite the huge 8,000 mile distance involved, the British military undertook the extraordinary task of sending warships and troops to the Falklands.

I'm your host James Rogers, and for the month of April on the Warfare Podcast, we mark the 40th anniversary of the Falklands

War with a series of special episodes.

We interview veterans from both the Argentinian and British sides of the conflict and draw on knowledge from

war historians and expert academics.

In this episode, I welcome Professor Klaus Dodds back onto the podcast.

Klaus is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, the University of London.

An expert in security and the Antarctic, amongst many other things,

Klaus provides us with the insight we need to understand the past,

present and future of the Falklands. Hi Klaus, good to have you back on the podcast. How are you doing? How have you been?

Good to be back. Thanks very much for asking. It seems like a long time since we were talking

about Ian Fleming and James Bond, but I know we're moving on to another

subject also very close to my heart. Yes you are a man of many many talents. Last time

you're on I think I called you our resident international man of mystery. I know that your day job is a professor of

geopolitics at rural Holloway. You're also an expert on James Bond, Ian Fleming, and amongst

other things you focus on geopolitics security ice and the Antarctic and I suppose in a weirdly

interesting way all of those topics bring us together to the focus of our podcast today, which is the Falklands War,

because it really does tie together your research interests.

So let's talk about the geopolitics of the Falklands War and perhaps start with the basics

to form a little bit of an explainer to provide us with some context to those events that

took place 40 years ago this month.

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