Michael Clapp's The Battle of San Carlos supports a force-structure lesson from the Falklands campaign. Capabilities used only occasionally can still be decisive when a crisis arrives. Once specialist skills, ships, and supporting institutions have disappeared, they cannot be regenerated quickly from nothing, and even a small surviving seedcorn is vulnerable to further cuts. Britain spent a decade without carrier strike, while its amphibious forces carried much of the country's global reach during that gap. Carrier and amphibious groups solve different problems, so restoring one by sacrificing the other leaves the fleet unable to escalate when a small forward force needs heavier support.
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The Battle of San Carlos and recoverable capability
Michael Clapp's The Battle of San Carlos leads to a warning that specialist amphibious capabilities cannot be quickly recreated once cut.