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Prewar, the army’s headcount target was 850K. In August, that goal went to 1.15m. The December 22/January 23 target would appear to be 1.5m.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/russian-army-expansion-won-t-100100188.html
[Russia is likely looking to recover losses from its invasion of Ukraine, and even then, the Russian army is unlikely to “reach an end strength of over 1,150,000 soldiers as the decree stipulates.” The report points out that Russian forces “has not historically met its end-strength targets:” it had around 850,000 active-duty troops before the invasion, against a target of one million.]

The first commenter at the Yahoo piece was hopeful, but his projection has yet to bear fruit:

[U has not regained even one handful of earth. Russia is moving toward Odesa to make U a land locked country. These things we actually know.]

- Formation of two new-old districts - Moscow and Leningrad.

- Formation of an army corps in Karelia.

- Formation of two motorized rifle divisions in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.

- Two new airborne assault divisions in the VDV.

- Seven motorized rifle and tank brigades stationed in the districts, as well as in the Northern Fleet, will be reorganized into divisions.

- Marine brigades will also become divisions.

- The reform will also affect the VKS (Aerospace forces). Eight bomber and one fighter regiments will be formed.

- Deployment of six brigades of army aviation.

- Eight artillery divisions and brigades, including large-capacity ones.

- Gradual change in the age of conscription from 18 years to 21 years, as well as the age limit of 30 instead of 27 years.

- Increase in the number of armed Forces to 1.5 million people, including 670 thousand contractors.

- Each tank army should contain a mixed air division (Army Aviation?) and an Air-Def brigade.

Everything that has been announced as a whole looks like a large-scale reform of the Armed Forces following the results of 10 months of the SMO in Ukraine. Well, the main question is how, and how qualitatively it will be implemented in practice.

@milinfolive