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Peter Wheen on the Royal Navy learning the lessons of the Falklands and how the boom in information technology helped. (RNM)

Transcript: “That period of eight years saw in civilian life the beginning of the explosion of the information age and this was very much mirrored within the services. So, although we got round a lot of the problems that we’d had in the Falklands, it was more from the fact of technology and making use of the technology that was coming along than an outright aim to learn the lessons of the Falklands. But of course we did.”

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