Numerous books have been written on the Falklands War but this is the first in-depth study of the ingenious logistics that enabled the British to win.  Challenges were huge, as witnessed by the lack of preparation time, political urgency, unprecedented distances, and readiness shortfalls.  After a brief discussion of events leading up to Argentina’s invasion, Kenneth L. Privratsky’s Logistics in the Falklands War describes in fascinating detail the rush to reorganize and deploy forces, dispatch a large task force, the innovative solutions needed to sustain the Task Force, the vital staging base at Ascension Island, the in-theater resupply, the setbacks and, finally, the restoring of order after victory.  The operation was a political and military gamble of the highest order.  Had logistics plans failed, victory would have been impossible and national humiliation inevitable, with no food for the troops, no ammunition for the guns, no medical support for casualties.  The lessons have never been more important with increasing numbers of out-of-area operations required in remote trouble spots on short notice.  The author, a highly experienced senior military leader, spells these out for commanders and logisticians today and in the future.

“Never has a nation assembled and deployed forces so quickly to fight a war so far away in an area where it had so little wherewithal. Britain was not ready for this fight in 1982 but still won.”
– From Preface to Logistics in the Falklands War

Published by Pen & Sword Books, Britain’s premier publisher of military histories, and dedicated to “the thousands of British men and women who worked behind the scenes and enabled victory in the Falkland Islands War.”
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