Reddit reviews Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire

Why wouldn't they want them?! the Falklands are awesome! but also it serves as a handy distraction for CFK's government to rile up sentiments about the Falkland Islands and the "evil colonial British pirates occupying Argentine land" all the whilst the nation is on the verge of a second default. The Junta did the same in the 80's.

I think there is a second reason that's not often alluded to and that's future resource claims in the Antarctic. This is a map of Argentine Claims in the southern ocean now at present we control a lot of this ocean as we have a legal claim to part of the Antarctic & The Falklands, South Georgia, The South Sandwich Islands and a lot of small islands and islets, so if Argentina wants to claim what it sees as it's share of the resources that will eventually flow out of the Antarctic it has to keep pressing it's claim to these lands and oceans which means harrassing us. The nice thing is we don't have to do aanything we just have to keep on keeping on. Pink Ice covers this topic really well if a little dryly but is definitely worth a read if you have the time