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?
“leadership will no longer be able to lead safely from the rear.”
Certainly they will be able to, as long as your country is smart enough to not allow their secure communications channels to be compromised, and to actually develop an effective command structure that doesn’t require operations to be micromanaged by higher officers.
Sure, and prior to WWI they were leading cavalry charges with sabres and pistols. Times have changed quite a bit since then.
Prior to WWI, officers did lead their troops into battle.
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back in the days of Ancient Rome, the Emperor himself would often lead his army. Emperor or imperator in latin translates as commander.
Doing brief research, a US General was killed when a ‘friendly’ Afghan soldier went wild and shot him up close.
And a US Colonel was killed in a roadside IED blast.
Russian tactics reveal a vastly different war theory.
Nice Casablanca paraphrase.
Until puti relents or wins, the killing he started goes on.
We’ll, look at the bright side: the present war is providing plenty of opportunity for advancement for ambitious junior officers
And “wins” begets an infinite insurgency, so maybe never.
That is not now nor ever has been "leadership." It's perfumed princery, a style of lording it over subordinates mastered by US flag officers throughout our history.
As have all American wars that have demonstrated the need to clear out the dead wood at the top accumulated in peace time. Except we mostly didn't do that in Viet Nam.
“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.”
It’s been a while, so I don’t have exact numbers but here’s the gist of it. There were “technicians” installing a piece of obviously dangerous kit in a compartment on a submarine. There was one junior sailor. When the situation went bad, one of the technicians, as it turns out a “senior captain” grabbed the sailor and threw him out, slamming the water tight door behind him. The situation turned out not to be controllable and all of the technicians died. They were all in their late fifties and senior captains. Let that sink in. They were installing equipment...a job for junior people. Granted they would be highly trained junior people. But none of these senior captains was the captain of the sub, which returned to port.
When the Soviet Union failed, their birth rate cratered and their education system disintegrated. When the highly trained technicians finally retire, then their military will basically be inducting people no better trained than someone from an African third world country that has and uses phones and computers, but has no one who can design or install anything technical beyond, say, a printer. If Russia wanted to reestablish the borders of the old Soviet Union, which seems to be the goal, they must do it before the present cadre of Soviet trained people retire. (2025.)
Nope - but dream on. We give no intel on specific individuals.
But word has it that a secret death ray from an invisible UAP has been made available by US Intel agencies for UA use.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/05/us-intelligence-ukraine-moskva-sinking/
We give no intel on specific individuals.
repeat after me: We give no intel on specific individuals.
locations are a different matter.
Patton and MacArthur were known for “leading from the front” in WW1. MacArthur was the most decorated American soldier in WW1. Patton was quoted as saying the only officer over the rank of major that he ever saw on a WW1 battlefield was MacArthur.
.......and there seems to be a lot of confirmation that U.S. intellegence, etc. were behind the recent sinkings of Russia’s Moskva and Admiral Makarov ships as well....I am sure Russia see these as acts of war....can you blame them...??
Well, there’s something to be said for someone like Napoleon willing to lead his men across the bridge in the face of enemy artillery, but even Napoleon was only brash enough to do that once in his life.
Bogus story - not targeted - GP made up.
Q: Can there be a mission important enough for that?
A: Yeah the one that won’t get done at all by the scouts if there is not a high ranking officer there to force them to do it.
The Russian military is on the verge of outright mutiny. They don’t understand why they are killing fellow Slavs or why they have expired rations, ammo, and fuel shortages. There have been reports that they have been shooting each other. Chechen militia are stationed to shoot deserters and don’t participate in the actual fighting until it is time to rape, pillage and plunder. Buryat formations have started to shoot them. Simply put these guys don’t want to die just so Putin can incorporate the Ukraine into a new Russian empire.
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