The British use of domestic political situations during the Falklands War

In 1982 Argentina invaded the Falklands Islands which led to a war against Britain. After the end of the war, an often-used argument was that the British government decided to re-conquer the Islands militarily because of domestic politics considerations, namely avoiding losing the upcoming election. This article offers to quantitively and qualitatively analyse recently declassified documents by the British government to study this claim. These analyses show that if there were elements referring to the domestic situation by the British government, they were used in a strategy to gain support during the most critical phase of the conflict.