The Epilogue offers a reflective and ethnographic account of the Falkland Islands in the aftermath of the 1982 conflict, viewed from the perspective of the present. Departing from the source-driven structure of the preceding chapters, it draws on the author’s personal experience during a visit to the archipelago in December 2017. The chapter advances a central paradox: while the war was deeply traumatic, it also marked a turning point that enabled the Islands’ profound economic and political transformation. In the post-war period, London ceased seeking Argentine approval for decisions concerning the Islands, a shift that expanded greater local autonomy and opened the path to prosperity. Tracing the policies and changes that followed, the epilogue examines the Islands’ new demographic profile and evolving social structure, drawing extensively on recent census data. It revisits the book’s core themes from today’s vantage point especially islander identity and relations with Argentina and concludes by suggesting that the postwar reality would have been unimaginable to the British, Argentine, and Falkland Islanders whose worlds the book has explored.