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Ukraine's Military Advantage and Russia's Stark Choices

War on the Rocks

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Russian Military Strategy - The Biggest Trade Offs

Ramsfeldan thing that i think we forgot too quickly is you go to war with the army that you have. The russian military is built as a partial mobilization army, an average at 70 % manning levels. Its actual manning level in peace time, at 70%, is more like 22 hundred men. And it is able to generate two batalion tactical groups, maybe around 11 hundred personnel.

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