The story of Operation Corporate vividly demonstrates the great virtue of setting the objective, making a plan for success, and then sticking to that plan regardless of the adversity encountered in its execution. And keep the plan they did 8000 miles from the United Kingdom, with marginal forces for the task, with no airborne early warning and greatly outnumbered in the air, Admiral Woodward and his men skillfully executed an amphibious campaign that many observers believed was certain to fail. The plan was Admiral Sandy Woodward’s blueprint for Operation Corporate, the British campaign to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentine forces in the spring of 1982 Working backwards from the latest date the weather and endurance of Royal Navy forces could support the land battle, Woodward and his staff devised a plan to neutralize the Argentine Navy and Air Force, put the landing force ashore, and support the British Army and Royal Marines in their fight to recapture the Islands. And somehow, we would manage to keep it, almost to the day.” “One way and another it was emerging as a pretty good plan of operations.
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