La guerra que casi nadie recuerda: el plan secreto de Argentina para invadir Chile

The War Almost No One Remembers: Argentina's Secret Plan to Invade Chile In December 1978, the Argentine Air Force secretly moved its Mirage III and A-4 Skyhawk fighter jets to bases in Patagonia, as part of a military plan designed against Chile. It was the largest military mobilization in 20th-century Argentine history: nearly 300,000 men, an aircraft carrier bound for the Pacific, and an invasion date already set. Everything was ready to be executed in a matter of hours. This video reconstructs, with declassified military documents and accounts from the time, how two neighboring countries came to the brink of a war that almost no one remembers today—and what exactly, at the last minute, prevented that order from ever being given. You will learn about the generals who were pushing for conflict, the projected casualty figures for the first week, and the detail that the head of the Argentine dictatorship himself would only acknowledge decades later. Music: Eyes of Glory - Aakash Gandhi, Duty Calls - Rod Kim. Public domain photographs.