Falklands 1982: Challenges in Expeditionary Warfare by MG (Ret) Kenneth Privratsky

In 1982, a lone admiral urged Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to deploy a military task force to counter Argentina’s invasion of the Falkland Islands. The archipelago, 8,000 miles from the United Kingdom, was the source of dispute over sovereignty between the two nations for more than a century. With no forward presence other than a tiny garrison on the islands, no allies in the area or intermediate support bases en route, and not even ships to mount the British military, Thatcher nevertheless decided to order deployment to retake the Falklands. The Prime Minister’s bold move sparked an expeditionary war, surprising many of the world’s other great powers. The British deployed forces nearly half the world away to achieve a complete victory only 74 days after the Argentine invasion. In this lecture, MG (Ret) Kenneth L. Privratsky, author of the recently published book, Logistics in the Falklands War, provides an overview of the war to include key actions leading to the victory, the aftermath, and most impo