Posted on 05/07/2022 7:13:34 AM PDT by MoraBlack
I´m posting this out of curiosity: One of the sources quoted in the tweet says Bichikayev, despite being deputy commander of his regiment, personally led the scouts to perform a particularly important combat mission when he was killed. Can there be a mission important enough for that?
US intelligence & advanced weaponry are behind these Russian deaths.
Possibly. More likely a “heroic death” cover story.
We won’t always be the only ones with this technology in the field.
These will be the rules in the next world war - leadership will no longer be able to lead safely from the rear.
From a recent article posted yesterday, Russian forces do not have NCO’s they need to lead troops into battle. They rely on officers and senior officers to direct troops on a mission.
If one is too chicken-shit to lead, at least occasionally, then one is too chicken-shit to command.
The death of this man is on Putin. How many more, on both sides, have to die?
—” personally led the scouts to perform a particularly important combat mission when he was killed.”
There are different styles of leadership; different answers depending on the source.
A reputable source with five styles of leadership.
Mastering the art of dynamic leadership
NCO Journal Staff
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/journals/nco-journal/archives/2018/august/dynamic-leadership/#:~:text=The%20Army%20Leadership%20Requirements%20Model&text=After%20reviewing%20the%20LRM‘s%20five,6%2D22%2C%20Army%20Leadership.
Can there be a mission important enough for that?
Prior to WWI, officers did lead their troops into battle.
Quite true. The LtCol may have been there for a special reason, not just general leadership. If he had highly specialized knowledge of a particular piece of equipment he may have been sent on the mission to install or operate it. Delicate sensor for very special type of monitoring?
Fragging opportunity.
A commander, at wherever level, needs to be where he can best control the most important operations in the battlefield.
Sometimes that means being in the front lines.
Yesterday he was just a Lt. Colonel today he’s one of the honored dead.
Keeping fighting until now has become a matter of pride, nobody wants to be called chicken
Give the Ukrainians some credit. The US is not targeting some relatively unimportant Russian Lt Col. the reason he got killed is that the Russian army is so inept they have to have leadership at the front managing small units instead of further rear managing a bigger battlefield.
We were as devoted to him as he was to us - and the enemy didn't get him; he died in 2005 and we are still in touch with his son.
They’re running out of generals to lead the combat missions.
Sounds like most of the Pentagon.
I’m not expert, but it appears to me that the Russians are still stuck in Soviet Military Doctrine where literally every order comes down from the top (i.e. 4 star general to 3 star, etc) to the rank directly below. It doesn’t seem like they have any Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) corps to speak of so they have officers leading this Ops.
The Ukrainians (with our help especially since 2014) have definitely made great strides in getting out of that mindset. Coupled with our weapons, this outdated approach has been devastating for the Russkys
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