HMS Malcolm (F88) "Malcolm"s medical support was essential to fishing operations off Iceland. The Ministry of Defence decided not to replace "Malcolm" immediately, probably because the situation had calmed somewhat (1970 was between the first and second Cod Wars). Responsibility for supporting the fishing fleet was henceforth the Department of Trade and Industry's. The dispute ended in 1976 in a face-saving treaty and victory for Iceland. Two years later, "Malcolm" was decommissioned. She was considered too small to act as a modern frigate and therefore unable to continue service into the 1980s. HMS Malcolm (F88) HMS "Malcolm" was a anti-submarine frigate of the
Cod Wars Wars because Icelandic statesmen were too greatly constrained by domestic politics to offer compromises to the British, but British statesmen were not as constrained by public opinion at home. International relations scholars such as Robert Keohane, Joseph Nye, Hans Morgenthau, Henry Kissinger and Ned Lebow have written on the Cod Wars. The 2016 review article finds that lessons from the Cod Wars have most commonly been applied to liberal and realist international relations theory and theories on asymmetric bargaining. It claims that the Cod Wars are widely seen as inconsistent with the precepts of the liberal peace, since democracy, trade