Now as far as the whys and wherefores go with regard to the events that took place in the South Atlantic thirty years ago I can either believe the ill-informed suppositions of someone who was not there, or I can believe published accounts by those responsible for directing operations, accounts that are in the public domain and open to professional critique and challenge. It is a no brainer really isn't it Musket I'll take Woodwards account and his reasoning over yours any day.

"I find your describing a scenario that never happened and then saying "Guess what? He'd had been right to sink it" to be grasping at straws."

Never happened?? What utter rot you spout. To the North of the Falklands the Carrier force's radar coverage extended only 40 miles beyond the position of the Type 42 Air Defence Destroyers. The Argentine Carrier Group escorted by Argentina's own two Type 42's had been detected by radar intercept from aircraft launched from Illustrious. Woodward (a very experienced Submariner himself) disagreed with our SSN's, particularly those stationed to the North, operating as they would have done in the Northern Atlantic. He would have assigned them differently (again taken from his book). The disagreement as to who controlled the submarines is matter of recorded fact as is the timing of those discussions so the charge of 20 x 20 hindsight does not enter into the equation.