England Your England
England Your England
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英格兰 你的英格兰
DOI：
10.1177/0047117806066716
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发表时间：
2006
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A. Danchev
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怀疑论者可能会说，这多么恰当，多么让人想起玛格丽特·撒切尔(Margaret Thatcher)更好斗的时刻(他们是弱者，欧洲人。弱‘)。在福克兰群岛的情况下，可以被称为喜剧片的诱惑是一个持续不断的陷阱。我们在华盛顿的人、令人钦佩的尼古拉斯·亨德森写道，我的目的是让美国公众明白，这不是吉尔伯特和沙利文的行为，媒体是这样描述的，但这是对和平的严重侵犯，结果可能会对美国产生直接影响。在这个堕落的时代，谁在进行竞选活动？降价政客和广告公司，这两类人往往难以区分。作为军事领域的一个术语，战役大致是一系列的行动，甚至是战场上的战斗(dans la camagne，正是词源)。一场战役的历史，无论是官方的还是非官方的，似乎都承诺会在这个层面上集中精力：用一个由来已久的短语来说，就是战斗研究；或多或少直截了当的军事史，老式的，如果不是老式的，从开始开始，在结束时结束，关注人与人，烟与火，泥与血。有一些这样的东西可以提供，但它的解析方式不同。福克兰群岛战役的官方历史从一开始就开始了，而不是战役的开始，而是主权争端的开始。不管是不是最后一章，第一卷的全部内容都是对这场争论的概括或浓缩，从第一次目击事件开始，本身就是有争议的；对无与伦比的塞缪尔·约翰逊提出了异议。。.)，这是一次英勇的努力，但令人沮丧；排练外交小步舞。它是高效地完成的。但以前也有人这样做过，如果不是更正式的话，也会更彻底。滴答作响的故事情节是众所周知的--部分是通过著名的弗兰克斯报告(Franks Report)--这里提供了这份报告，但仔细地收集了信息和估计；部分是通过劳伦斯·弗里德曼(Lawrence Freedman)自己之前的工作--情节的基本元素几乎是公式化的：推诿。。。受挫。。。爆炸。主题是确定的：争取时间；没有战略
How appropriate, the sceptics may say, and how reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher’s more truculent moments (‘They are weak, the Europeans. Weak’). In the case of the Falklands, what might be called the comic-opera temptation is a constant pitfall. ‘My aim was to get it across to the US public that this was not an act from Gilbert and Sullivan’, recorded our man in Washington, the admirable Nicholas Henderson, ‘which was how the press were representing it, but a serious transgression of the peace that, in its outcome, could have a direct impact on the Americas.’ Who conducts a campaign in this debased day and age? Cut-price politicians and advertising agencies, the two categories frequently indistinguishable. As a term of art in the military sphere, a campaign is roughly a series of operations, battles even, in the field (dans la campagne, the very etymology). The history of a campaign, official or otherwise, would seem to promise a concentration at that level: battle studies, to use a time-honoured phrase; more or less straightforward military history, old-style if not old-fashioned, beginning at the beginning and ending at the end, focussing on man and man, smoke and fire, mud and blood. There is some of that on offer, but it is parsed differently. The Official History of the Falklands Campaign begins at the beginning, not of the campaign, but of the sovereignty dispute. Give or take a concluding chapter, the whole of volume I is a recapitulation or condensation of that dispute, starting with the first sightings, themselves disputed; taking issue with the inimitable Samuel Johnson (‘What, but a bleak and gloomy solitude . . .’), a gallant effort but forlorn; rehearsing the diplomatic minuet. It is efficiently done. But it has been done before, more thoroughly, if not more officially. The ticking-clock storyline is well known – partly through the famous Franks Report, dished here, but carefully gutted for information and estimation; partly through the previous work of Lawrence Freedman himself – the plot in its basic elements almost formulaic: prevarication . . . frustration . . . explosion. The motifs are well established: playing for time; having ‘no strategy