[EnderWiggin1970]

Good article digging into the details of Russian (and Ukrainian) NCOs and their role on the battlefront.

[Reverend Wright]

There is a larger issue with the NATO NCO strategy: in a multi-year peer war, most of the troops you started with end up as casualties by the end of year one - especially junior officers and NCOs.

The survivors end up as trainers for the people on the battlefield in years two and three.

If NCOs take years to train, and most of them end up as casualties after year one, where are the experienced NCOs going to come from in years two and beyond ?

[Fungi]

Could we possibly get the NCO to do without the AFL at another URL? That would be PDS!

[RetiredTexasVet]

Reminds me of the “Instant Sergeant” program they had in Vietnam...

[BobL]

“When NATO came to overhaul the AFU into their much-vaunted Western NCO system, the Ukrainian officers subsequently saw opportunity to “pull back” from the frontline”

I guess the West Point Training Manuals never bothered to mention that GPS could be jammed, since none of their graduates has EVER had to directly fight a MODERN army, as in the Russian Army.

[MuttTheHoople]

In 1994, I went through Army Boot camp and one of my bunkmates was a Russian who was drafted into the Red Army in 1985. He told me that all the training was done by Officers, and the Sergeants were merely there for administrative duties.

Western Armies (American, British, Canadian, French, German, etc.) have traditionally had very strong NCO Corps. Senior leadership entrusts much responsibility to these NCO's and it pays off on the mission end.

Eastern Armies either entrust too much authority in their officer corps, or Senior leadership. In authoritarian countries, many Generals hate have subordinates that have a strong base of knowledge- they're afraid that they'll get overthrown. Other armies have a contempt for ALL enlisted men, not just privates.

[unclebankster]

The problem I have with the Russia-Ukraine War, is the terrible war footage. Footage that doesn’t align with the hundreds of thousands casualty figures that are being floated around by propagandists on “both sides.”

The last footage I watched, had 7 or 8 Ukrainians clearing empty trenches in the middle of nowhere.

The footage before that had 8-10 Ukrainians get out of AV, spend about a half hour to kill one Russian, with no body presented, but one Ukrainian guy talks “cocky talk” about his mission for a minute.

My favorite is the one explosion showed from multiple angles and it gets presented as different explosions in the same video.

Please ...please...lets get some footage that looks real from these huge military operations in Ukraine.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

[Dogbert41]

This was a good movie depicting what the US Army went through

https://youtu.be/Oi4eo0GvgTw?si=aikRDFFmfwyRHFzN