1/ It's time for another purge of the Russian army, along the lines of Stalin's Great Purge of 1937, says Russian warblogger 'Two Majors'. He castigates the army's culture of shifting responsibility and performative work for its systematic failures in Ukraine. ⬇️
2/ The Russian army's bureaucratic culture has created a "system of reports, legal squabbles, and endless shifting of responsibility in military affairs". However, he says, it "has outlived its usefulness and is directly damaging the military sphere of the Russian Federation." 3/ "You can fulfill all the demands of senior staff and immediate superiors, receive awards, and be in good standing, while being an outright scoundrel when it comes to defending the country. 4/ "Example: you need to cover a rear road from drones. Quickly. To do this, you can easily pull a few conscripts from neighboring trenches under the Christmas trees, give them automatic rifles without protective gear, and proudly call these people standing in the darkness… 5/ …an "Air Observation Post." Or even a Mobile Task Force. They have legs, after all, they're mobile. Create about 10 of these "posts" and report: "Road covered!" 6/ "And there's no way to find fault: the commander has formed cover fire groups from the available forces and resources, and they're on duty. No protective gear? That's not allowed by the organisation. Conscripts? (By the way, they still manage to shoot down enemy targets!) 7/ "But the commander has no other resources. Everyone's fed, ammunition is being used, military discipline is being observed, and phones are not being used. The trenches, again, are in good shape. So, it turns out, such a commander needs to be...rewarded!" 8/ "As long as we prioritise a report about a closed road over the actual fact of a closed road, we're unlikely to see any dramatic improvements. And 1937 was necessary to judge such scumbags based on the facts, not through lengthy legal proceedings." /end Source: t.me