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Tom Wilhelm

COL(R) Tom Wilhelm - Retired U.S. Army officer, Foreign Area Officer (FAO) specializing in Russia/Soviet affairs, and former Director of Fort Leavenworth's Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO).

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May 29, 2026

The Foreign Area Officer Podcast

The Foreign Area Officer Podcast

#37 - COL(R) Tom Wilhelm

May 29 · 2h 11m

Michael HillHOST

70:24

Right.

Tom WilhelmGUEST

70:24

And stuff like that.

Tom WilhelmGUEST

70:26

And here's the thing.

Tom WilhelmGUEST

70:26

The country team was perfect for this.

Tom WilhelmGUEST

70:28

I mentioned it was small.

Tom WilhelmGUEST

70:29

I, I was a one-man shop, by the way.

Tom WilhelmGUEST

70:32

But what that really meant was that we were more integrated than you'd find at bigger embassies.

45 MINS LATER

Michael HillHOST

115:10

I don't remember where I read it, but I seem to remember something from the Kaplan article, maybe I heard it from somewhere else, about you having ano- something else on display in the FAO display in the Pentagon that came from your time there in Mongolia.