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Straight from the horse's mouth on Russian State TV.
Like McNamara's 100,000, but this one is for Russian Officers.
Get them on the line, they can learn from OJT!
Eating the seed corn.
And when they have burnt off the sons of the elites in Russia, who will be the next leaders for the Russian army?
Thanks for that!
The Germans had this problem in the movie "Enemy at the Gates."
If one walks through the cemetery at West Point Military Academy there are quite a number of graves containing Lts and Captains from the Vietnam War.
In the military, the real leaders are those of rank E-4 and above. They know the ropes and can lead squads and even companies, and sometimes battalions. I know; I saw first-hand how my sergeants took the leads in Vietnam. The officers took the reports and plans and orders from above, but, in combat, officers are not that needed.
It’s like in football, where the real leader on the field is the quarterback. The quarterback gets the plans from the coach and leads his men in execution.
They should stop shooting their own people.
Since last fall in the November timeframe, Russia began a military expansion program. Three Corps of 500K to be newly formed after the November reorganization showing 160K in Special Operation, four separate commands combined in a unified 160K command, plus the first 500K Corps organized.
In May-June period the 2d or first new 500K Corps was combat ready bringing Russia up to 2 full Corps.,
In late August the 3d Corps is expected to be completed. In December 2023 the 4th Corps should be fully trained.
Russia has suffered approx 35K combat deaths and 80K WIA. Looking at combat units at least one officer per platoon of 40-50 soldiers; a company of 150-175 would have a CO and XO plus 4 platoon leaders as junior officers. A battalion would be 3-4 company’s led by a LTC and Major and total 500-600 men. That’s about 16 2LTs, 4 1LTs, 4 Captains plus the Major and LTC or 26 officers per 500-600 men.
I can see at least one dead officer per 20 enlisted. Take 35k KIAs and you lose to death 1800-2,000 and another 6,000-8,000 WIA. These estimates are for Infantry.... Other military units may be more Officer top heavy.
If you consider Russia has gone from 700K soldiers to an expansion of over 2m by December 2023.... WOW.
On top of the 4 Corps, Russia has called up 300K, and 400K in addition call ups that basically cover 2 year discharges.
By January 2024, Russia may have an active force of over 2M and a Reserve of combat aged men over 3M.
[Like McNamara’s 100,000, but this one is for Russian Officers.]