Over the past two decades, the U.S. military has focused almost exclusively on operations in the Middle East. However, U.S. strategy specifies that military services must be ready to operate in remote areas, aka expeditionary warfare. At this event, today’s U.S. military situation is compared to that of Britain’s in 1982 when, while concentrating exclusively on NATO and the Warsaw Pact, it found itself waging a war 8,000 miles away with little wherewithal. And the dramatic difference of deploying to and operating in remote areas will be highlighted using a photo slideshow of the Falklands War. Major General Kenneth L. Privratsky, USA (Retired), served in the infantry in Vietnam before becoming a logistics specialist. He taught at West Point, was a military fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and commanded organizations supplying U.S. forces worldwide. In civilian life he was an executive in the ocean transportation industry. He has lectured on military subjects to both national and international audiences and is the author of the recently published Logistics in the Falklands War. Now retired, he lives in Anchorage.