People a Argentina, people a Britain, for the past week The Flare Path Strategic Studies Institute has been conducting detailed simulations a a possible Second Falklands War. Using Custer II – an engine built with the assistance a Bohemia Interactive, Battlefront.com, Turbo Tape Games 'n PopCap – we’ve run over 1000 separate conflict scenarios. a these, 54% ended in stalemate, 19% be won by the defence industry, 12% by TV news networks, 8% by politicians, 5% by oil companies 'n 2% by anthropomorphic sunflowers. The FPSSI boffins be still analysing defeat data, but preliminary findings indicate that the biggest losers in any future Falklands bust-up would be hapless civilians 'n servicemen 'n their families.

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