What's the story about Russian generals? Are they like V.P.s in a

[Baitball Blogger]

commercial bank? Just a title to fool the customers?

[peppertree]

1. I suspect most of them feel like Stalin's generals

Too scared of the next dictatorial temper tantrum to actually propose anything useful.

How history repeats itself.

[C_U_L8R]

2. More like drummers in Spinal Tap

[AZSkiffyGeek]

10. I was thinking "#2 in Al Qaeda" But I don't want to be that cynical

Your answer is better!
Wait for General Joe "Mama" Besser to spontaneously combust.

[iemanja]

14. number 3

How many number 3s has the US military gotten? Number 3 seems meaningless.

[lagomorph777]

11. Yes, and at this point they'd probably prefer being killed in battle to facing Pootin.

[lame54]

17. Or a bizarre gardening accident

[Wingus Dingus]

3. I don't know, but they make fat juicy targets.

[peppertree]

7. To say nothing of their Tuscan estates.

[MineralMan]

4. The Russian military doesn't really trust its officer corps

to get things right, so they send Generals, too. That's not working out real well for them.

I wonder, though, who is killing the Generals. The Ukrainians? Fragging? It's a strange thing, the Russian military. Always has been.

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. Russians are communicating on unsecure channels

which is likely giving the Ukrainians some significant actionable intel.

https://news.yahoo.com/russian-military-being-hacked-after-its-own-soldiers-destroy-3-g-internet-towers-104303881.html

[MineralMan]

8. Yes. I had heard that. I'm sure the Russian military has

secure communications equipment, but probably not enough of it to send to a "pushover" country like Ukraine. Bad mistake.

Even in the Soviet days, field units in remote places did not get the latest equipment or anything even close to it. The problem was that there wasn't enough of the latest gear to go around, so it went to headquarters units mainly, rather than into the field.

All "look/see" sort of stuff.

Don't ask me how I know that, though. I can't tell you.

[LiberalArkie]

18. Early on I heard that the Russian new high dollar crypto gear used 4G and LTE from phone companies

for the links to other crypto.

What is the first thing that an invading army do? Knock out telecommunications systems.

Why didn't the generals know what was happening at the very start? See the point above.

[blm]

5. Or Spinal Tap drummers

[Torchlight]

9. All have been division commanders (plus one corp commander)

British media outlet Mirror asserted "there is reportedly around 20 Russian generals leading the invasion - meaning a fifth have already died in three weeks."

Major General Sukhovetsky was the first Russian general to die and was reportedly killed by a sniper. The second general to die was Major General Gerasimov, who was killed outside Kharkiv, along with other senior officers. Then, General Kolesnikov, of the 29th Combined Arms Army, was killed in fighting only five days ago.

Pentagon estimates of total Russian soldiers taken out of the fight point to many more wounded, captured or missing, saying Tuesday that Ukraine and Russia each have lost about 10 percent of their combat power. The Russians have poured more than 150,000 troops across the border. Ukraine’s active-duty military is estimated to number about 200,000.

10% casualty rate of 150,000 is 15,000 Russian casualties. Hard to imagine that big of a number being hid from the Russian people for any measurable length of time.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Maybe the Ukrainians should take out the mobile crematoriums to make it hard

for Putin to hide the bodies?

[Mme. Defarge]

12. Good one!

As a former financial institution VP, they were a dime a dozen. Still, it was better to be one than not.

[doc03]

15. I would say we are providing Ukraine with important

Intel for them to be picked off.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. Well, then. Keep up the good work!