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2022-03-25 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

5 reasons Russia has lost more generals in a month than US in 2 decades

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Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Cause they're doing COL and LTC jobs. When you don't have an effective non-commissioned officer corps, you got officers doing those jobs. When you have LTs and CPTs doing NCO jobs, then MAJ and LTC do the company grade jobs, with COL and GEN doing battalion and brigade jobs much closer to the action.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-25 08:27|| 2022-03-25 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Our club here are shaking in their slippers. The swamp grows everywhere you have poor leadership.

Posted by Dale 2022-03-25 08:47|| 2022-03-25 08:47|| Front Page Top

#3 They scurry about like cockroaches when the light shines upon them. Vindman a good example.

Posted by Dale 2022-03-25 08:49|| 2022-03-25 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4 One could argue that if we had lost (or at least misplaced) a few more generals along the way, then our military would be focused on warfighting instead of woke nonsense.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-25 09:04|| 2022-03-25 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ maybe if they had tossed the peacetime promotion system and gone full field performance we'd been better off. However, that wouldn't have been 'equitable', not that war is.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-25 09:21|| 2022-03-25 09:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Putin 'loses his FIFTH general': Top Russian commander is killed in Ukrainian strike, military sources claim as Kyiv continues to take out Moscow's elite troops

Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-25 09:51|| 2022-03-25 09:51|| Front Page Top

#7 A circular firing squad is forming in the Kremlin, with everyone pointing their guns at each other: Vladimir Putin's regime looks under serious threat for the first time since he came to power, writes Professor MARK GALEOTTI

Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-25 09:53|| 2022-03-25 09:53|| Front Page Top

#8 I wish we'd get rid of Milley. Same for most of the brass. If we'd gotten rid of Tommy Franks 20 years ago we'd be in a better place today

Posted by Snakes Lover of the Veal Cutlets5809 2022-03-25 10:01|| 2022-03-25 10:01|| Front Page Top

#9 during the Red Purge of 1936-38, Stalin had several dozen generals and tens of thousand of officers executed

as well as several hundred thousand civilians

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-03-25 10:30|| 2022-03-25 10:30|| Front Page Top

#10 historically western militaries push down the knowledge to the lowest person so that they know everything they need to do their job.

Third world militaries protect such info as some kind of power/status protection and to prevent mutiny's?

Apparently the Russians work along 3rd world lines.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-03-25 11:47|| 2022-03-25 11:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Does diabetes count?

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-25 13:34|| 2022-03-25 13:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Apparently the Russians work along 3rd world lines.

Could be, USSR doctrine shaped 3rd world?

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-25 14:01|| 2022-03-25 14:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Could be, USSR doctrine shaped 3rd world?

If BLM could read that they would be very upset.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-25 15:48|| 2022-03-25 15:48|| Front Page Top

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