@VikingChieftain it's cheap to hire mercs, when you are sending them as first meat vawes. Then you never have to pay anyone of them.
Bonus is they can't even tell the others not to come, as they took their phones before.
Endless supply of meat from poor countries with men imagining they will earn huge money.
You know, you may have hit on something there. Maybe we should be using drones to occasionally drop cell phones to troops, the day before their trenches are targeted. Not only would it give some chance for their word to get out, but after doing that a couple of times, it's a nice signal to them that their trench is about to be plowed under. Makes 'em twitchy.
Russia's professional corps has been largely decimated. But even at the onset of the war, the reservists were woefully undertrained. Even Russia is majority underdeveloped, just like Chechnya and the -stans.
I graduated USAFA, and flew military for 7. Training to 'reserve' level is maintaining a proficiency, at best. Unless one's full time, it's not training to expertise. Then drag them off to a strange theatre with no support, and we wouldn't do much better. And now they're down to conscripted reservists. Those 'morons' had perfectly good, and probably productive lives (disregarding released convicts here) before impressment into service.
Unless they're personally war criming, I'd like to kill them with the respect they would have deserved, if not impressed. Discounting them as morons has the danger of hubris.
There's a parable about a samurai who was tasked to kill the mayor of an opposing village. As he was about to kill the mayor, the mayor spit in his face. The samurai paused, sheathed his sword, and walked away.
When you riddle out why he didn't kill the mayor then and there, you've found out the 'proper', some might say soulful, way to kill, in war.
Sorry, I may have hit the wrong reply, but the question was made for ekknap. No, the point being that the samurai had been angered, and he would have slain his opponent in anger. He recognized that and walked away.
Anger in war is useless. You use your training to remain dispassionate. That does not remove assuming the role of mad dog, but it is a role you play for maximum effect in a situation that demands it.
Hubris is another thing worse that worthless in war. It creates a hole in the understanding of one's own strength. Respect the enemy.
@ekknappenberger@VikingChieftain@skydog I've had a guide during my vacation in Nepal. We went through Larke pass together. He was eager to get to UK to join the army. He was Ghurka and had military training.
As there are too many Nepalese applying for mil. service in UK, his chances were slim. He was planning to get there via Poland.
I wonder if he could end up in Russian army as that is very easy and they are promising a lot(for Nepalese) of money. I've tried to contact him to no avail.
@ekknappenberger@VikingChieftain@skydog Maybe UA should try and get hold of these guys, what with manpower shortage and all?
These guys speak English, have training and they are eager to prove their worth. (they are still very proud about Ghurkas from WW2.)
Why fight them, when you can have them on your side?
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