Logistics wins wars.
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Nov 10, 2026 · 5:00 PM UTC
Soldiers take part in maritime logistics operations during the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) rotation 27-01 at Waipio Point, Hawaii, Nov. 3, 2026.
JPMRC 27-01 will integrate U.S. forces, along with military members from the Republic of Korea, Singapore, France, New Zealand, Japan, and the Maldives to refine joint capabilities and rehearse tactics, techniques, and procedures required to dominate jungle and archipelagic terrain during large-scale combat operations.
📷Pvt. Samantha DeHoyos, 25th Infantry Division
Absolutely
Logistics has entered the chat.
We talked Command Posts.
We talked artillery positions.
We talked rehearsals.
What we have chosen to ignore in every CTC rotation is the reality of logistics in LSCO under the new battlefield geometry.
This is not a reputational event.
This is a Combat Training Center.
We MUST ACKNOWLEDGE REALITY.
Acknowledge the depth of the battlefield.
Acknowledge Logistics at distance.
We must train this.
A BCT with base clusters sitting inside SUAS range is not sustainment. It is target practice for the drone operators. A formation approaching the dead zone that goes Black on Class III and V is reality if we continue pushing LRPs of blinking lights just to enable a training objective is malpractice that we cant paper over. It is the fight.
We should not use post assets quietly plugging the gaps so the rotation can keep rolling.
Not “just in time” and “lean logistics” built for a kind world.
We will fight in a wicked world.
If we will not kinetically stress logistics, we will not learn how to sustain our most capable formations when it actually matters. If we do not fix our logistics, we will not execute anything in LSCO.
Starry warned us not to water down the fight so BLUEFOR looks good. We did it anyway. Then we called the green slides “training.”
Logistics is not a bill payer.
Logistics is not a supporting cast member.
Logistics is a fact in every cell.
Strength starts with logistics.
Stop protecting the rotation.
Start stressing the system.
Learn how to fight and sustain at distance at the same time.
Or keep pretending. The enemy will not.
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