[DJ Elliott]

If that was the issue, Russia would not be reducing from 1.34 million to 1 million in the army.

They are scrapping the professional contract soldiers and going all draftee.

This is a doubling of the draft while cuting 25 percent of the total numbers. Including eliminating the senior enlisted (Warrant) ranks and most of the contracted personnel.

The draft rate for this fall indicates the only professionals being retained are the commissioned officers. So the Russian Army reverts to a smaller form of its old inefficient Red Army...

[Roccus]

Perhaps I misunderstood. I thought the Russian goal was for a volunteer army but has now reverted back to a conscripted one, thereby setting up the bureaucracy needed to acquire bodies to throw at bodies.