The battleship counterfactual shifts from air defense to the land campaign. Argentine troops in exposed or lightly prepared positions already faced shortages of food, leadership, and support. Fifteen-inch shells arriving from the sea would add a scale of bombardment far beyond ordinary artillery or air attack. That pressure becomes a powerful incentive to surrender, showing how naval gunfire can shape morale and operations well inland.
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Vanguard's shore bombardment could transform the land campaign
The later Vanguard follow-up focuses on how sustained fifteen-inch fire would affect poorly supplied Argentine positions ashore.