Philip Lere

Strategy. War. Logistics. Reading. Cigars. And any combination of those.

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Written 1956. Reading old military books is the best.

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@Aviation_Intel Shaw F-16 demo team has a black one. I saw it at Travis airshow today (no idea if painted that way in 2018). https://t.co/lo7jKz0rbm

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@mikejason73 Pre-positioned supplies in space. Professional logistics opinion.

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@TyrellMayfield Waiting for PA approval, it should come on time.

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@jackmandaville Hopefully you can neurolink into the metaverse by then. Sorry to hear cuz...

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@mikejason73 @JK_Alaniz I spent two years in Afghanistan advising ANA on logistics. Hardest work I've ever done.

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@jwmeiser To halve their readership from 2 people to 1.

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@EvansRyan202 Civil War Supply and Strategy by Earl Hess. Published 2020. Logistics is an underappreciated aspect of the Civil War and Hess does a great job of connecting it to how the war was fought.

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@EvansRyan202 @hmfic04 Advised. Afghanistan x2.

[Joy Lere @joylerepsyd]

History repeats because humans fail to learn its lessons. https://t.co/v2yuwXR67c

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@UticaEric @zenpundit When I figured out we were winning most gunfights and still losing the war I switched to reading almost entirely strategy books. That was 8 years ago. Still reading, still searching, still losing… Better for my next war I hope.

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Brits in Norway in WWII: “For security sake he and Auchinleck conversed on the telephone in Pashtu.” I wish my Pashtu had gotten that good…

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@APJ_somewhere Excellent book. Tough to compress into a tweet but basically DOD values the combat roles more and the FAOs don’t usually get a seat at the table. “Diplomacy is State’s job” goes the argument I’ve heard. I love FAO but some I’ve encountered believe it’s a distraction to DOD.

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@APJ_somewhere Tell them about Edward Landsdale. Great FAO story. Also tell them that the DOD doesn’t like FAOs and they should get used to operating alone and in the grey.

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@JimLaPorta Thank you for posting. I’ve been waiting all day for this one. After he was killed I flew him from Afghanistan to Dover to Colorado. He was buried at USAFA. A truly phenomenal human being I was lucky to call my friend.

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@McCainJack I was an AFPAK Hand from 12-17. Loved it. It was not for everyone one but it was for me. I managed to survive five years outside my “core” career field but only by sheer luck and some GO protection.

[Matthieu Aikins @mattaikins]

Good morning, Kabul. Reports of rockets launched against the airport this morning, and we heard the roar of what sounded like a C-RAM…

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@UVAnthonyCSCS Got it, good to know.

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@UVAnthonyCSCS Pure speculation, but I would suspect Ktah Khas. I interacted briefly with them a few years back. They were a cut above even the normal commando units I saw.

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@DavidSacks War is harder than VC.