1/ Russian commanders are dumping unwanted sick, wounded, mutinous, drunk or disobedient men, whom they call 'illiquid assets', into assault squads. They aim to get rid of them by sending them to a likely death. As a commentary points out, this is counterproductive. ⬇️
2/ Svyatoslav Golikov of the 'Philosopher in ambush' Telegram channel writes:
"Below is a message from a good comrade, with whom we also discussed the problems of the practice of informal punishments and at the same time the organization of assault actions:"
"Below is a message from a good comrade, with whom we also discussed the problems of the practice of informal punishments and at the same time the organization of assault actions:"
3/ "In principle, we have formed a system when assault groups are equated to a penal battalion, where all fly-by-nighters, all inconvenient ones, all who are not to be pitied are sent for their mistakes.
4/ "Commanders even call such people "illiquid assets", "substandard" among themselves, in short, not particularly combat-ready and useful fighters. We have such a system.
5/ "We need to reconsider the approach to assault actions, when everyone should work for the assault group: reconnaissance drones, support for kamikaze drones, artillery. All this is tied into a single communication loop.
6/ "Then the result will be normal, if we approach assault operations from this point of view. I know units that work exactly like this. But, unfortunately, there are very few of them. So we have what we have.
7/ "That is, formally, we do not have penal units to which military personnel could be sent in an organised fashion for a given period, depending on the severity of the violation or crime committed.
8/ "But there is an informal practice of actually turning assault squads into penal companies, which has become widespread.
9/ "Given that the organization of assault operations in principle leaves much to be desired, such an informal practice seems absolutely counterproductive and only further aggravates the situation.
10/ "The approaches to the formation of assault groups outlined above, on the one hand, do not ensure their practical effectiveness (some do not have normal assault training, others are not physically fit, others are generally unsuitable for either assaults or for entrenchment,…
11/ …groups are not coordinated, people often see each other for the first time); on the other hand, they do not in any way dispose the command staff to properly organise and ensure assault operations, working to preserve the practice of meat assaults,…
12/ …because commanders, accustomed to treating assaults as disposable meat, will not bother themselves with ‘unnecessary’ tactical considerations.
13/ "Thus, the informal practice of punishment by sending people to assaults leads to senseless, and often downright criminal waste of human resources; has as a consequence the professional degradation of the command staff;…
14/ …seriously hinders the advancement of assault infantry and assault operations to a qualitatively different level." /end
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