Putin's Rustic Approach to Command and Control

I'm not sure it has one of the characteristics which came over to me and my fellow commanders was a rigidity in the Russian approach to command and control. And part of the reason for it being top down, I surmise, is the Russian army does not have a senior non-commissioned officer body. They are creatures of authority and you don't see that in the Russian army. It's a lacuna in my view which doesn't do them any good. In some ways, Mike, you could see your experience of pristine airport as a kind of high point of NATO relations or at least the West's relations with Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. But things