How successful was Thatchers handling of the Falklands crisis?

During Thatchers term as British Prime Minister she had been the most unpopular Prime Minister in living memory  and there are some instances in which Thatcher did not handle the situation in the Falklands with grace. As a result, more effort was needed on Britains part to win a war that previous leaders would have thought was absurd as they had previously tried to offload the islands, not fight to keep it. However, the crisis became a defining moment of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership, and changed her image and her political fortunes which inverted her standing with the British public, and I believe that she was entirely successful, militarily and politically both in Britain and internationally that eventually set her on a pedestal of electoral invincibility from which she was not toppled for another eight years which was reinforcedby thelandslide win in the gen…(short extract)