“The relief of Russian commanders, which set this entire sequence into motion, has led some to suggest that a U.S. shortcoming in recent years has been our failure to fire unsuccessful generals. In the words of one critic, “a private who loses his rifle is subject to greater punishment than a general who loses a war.”
General Milley. General Austin.
The Russian military lacks a well-trained Non-Commissioned Officer core to provide continuity over the years............
6 paragraphs about the subject of the title: Russian generals;
10 paragraphs on US generals, not the subject of the title.
Gilbert&Sullivan were lampooning Sir Garnet Wolseley, who, arguably, really was a model Major General. He was a master of logistics and operations, and had great experience in “expeditionary” warfare besides. It probably helped a lot that he came up from the Engineers, and saw firsthand the consequences of sloppy planning in the Crimea. His Egyptian campaign was a model of coordination and efficiency, fought against a “near peer” opponent, at least on the grounds of technology and equipment.
Its a pity that many of his successors werent so gifted.
You can bet that the ChiComms know it, too.
Øbowel took care of our officer corps. The “liberated” perfumed princes still around are not the sort to win anything but favor with the deep state.
“Recent reports indicate”
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Not to question the unquestionable authority of “recent reports” indicating something or other, but I suspect a lot of this PR is dependent on assessing there is still public belief that national leaders and their top generals sit on horses in bright long jackets on front lines of battles waving their swords and yelling “Charge!!”.
I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I’m teeming with a lot o’ news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
ALL:
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotepotenuse.
GENERAL:
I’m very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
ALL:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General.
GENERAL:
I know our mythic history, King Arthur’s and Sir Caradoc’s;
I answer hard acrostics, I’ve a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I’ve heard the music’s din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
ALL:
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
(You’ll note there’s nothing in there about wokeness.)
Mackubin Owens does himself a disservice by pretending that American and NATO commanders aren’t running the war in Ukraine.
I have my own theory of Generals being killed.
I think that the low morale of Russian troops require officers to personally communicate with them.
It is very hard to raise morale by the way of encoded radio instructions.
In person communications and inspections are the best way to do in such a situations. So the Russian generals are trying their best.
“...Without a professional non-commissioned officer (NCO) corps...”
This, in my opinion, is the number 1 deficiency in the Russian military.