Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ The Russian army's fetish for bureaucracy has reached new levels this year, according to a Russian soldier and warblogger. The quantity has tripled over the past year, but the system is geared towards generating false information, or "fantasy stories about armed conflict". ⬇️

2/ 'Vault No. 8' has previously written about the extreme quantities of paperwork that the Russian army requires its personnel to generate and process. As well as taking up huge amounts of officers' time, the output often does not reflect reality.

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1958932563512188943

3/ A further problem is that the Russian army is still, in the year 2025, entirely paper-based, and does not make use of electronic data collection and processing; it all has to be dealt with manually. 'Vault No. 8' writes:

4/ "Some military-bureaucratic results of the year that can be summarized now.

1) Document flow has increased 2.5-3 times compared to last year.

And this has led to nothing except our adaptation as clerks in the Rwanda Defence Army [sic – euphemism to avoid the censors].

5/ "We have become more resilient as developers and printers. 😁

The purpose of military documents, just like in civilian life, is to provide higher headquarters with food for thought.

6/ "But the increased printing volume has only resulted in us overwhelming our superiors with paper—the division has five regiments alone, each with 2.5-3 times as much paperwork. And the division has only one brain.

7/ "Secondly, in their hyper-centralisation, higher headquarters only request primary data from military units, without any preliminary analysis. This complicates the work of the higher-ups.

8/ "The backwardness of the Rwandan Armed Forces lies in the fact that documents are transmitted in paper form or as scans, forcing higher headquarters to waste time manually entering data into software, instead of collecting electronic data and using AI for analysis.

9/ "A huge amount of time is wasted with minimal efficiency.

This is assuming that military documents, as information carriers, are supposed to help higher headquarters think correctly.

10/ "In reality, the military bureaucracy in Rwanda is designed for writing fantasy stories about armed conflict. And the imperfections and complexity of the paperwork help make the fantasy more interesting and colorful.

11/ "2) The frequency of inspections went from normal (every three months) to increased—once a month, which again led to nothing.

12/ "Good clerks stopped having any real shortcomings in the first quarter, and then they started making things up. Bad clerks continued to conduct business poorly.

13/ "3) In the far rear of the Zone, this year they introduced procedures similar to those in the permanent deployment point [i.e. home base in Russia], which complicated the conduct of business and combat activities:

14/ "– Production of reporting documentation for useless inspections.

– Drill with only the official uniform.

15/ "– The introduction of work hours regulations, where you can see on the office door what service this or that office is ready to provide at what time of day. Although the war is raging around the clock, and nobody gives a damn about "internal work hours" or "visitor hours."

16/ "– Complications of logistics: only a minimum number of vehicles from each military unit (usually five) are allowed across the border, including trucks carrying ammunition.

We don't understand this initiative and consider it the machinations of the Heroes of Ukraine.

17/ "– Toward the end of the year, a hunt was launched for those violating uniforms and the rules governing driver-passenger document flow.

The motto of the outgoing year in our region: "Whatever a soldier does, as long as he gets fucked."

18/ "We carried round things, we rolled square things [i.e. everything here is done in the most idiotic, inefficient, and back-breaking way possible]." /end

Source:
t.me/vault8pro/53456