There's eight of them. You can read them, here.
One of the unspoken lessons is that this war is a close to a large near-peer war as there has been since 1945. Lessons from older wars, such as the "shell crisis" of the First World War, keep being retaught.
The thing is, though, that it's expensive to keep up a large wartime stock of munitions in peacetime, for most of them have to be recycled or destroyed at the end of their shelf life. Keeping them pas their "best-by" date ensures lots of duds. As the Russians are finding out.
A blog by a "sucker" and a "loser" who served her country in the Navy.
If you're one of the Covidiots who believe that COVID-19 is "just the flu",
that the 2020 election was stolen, or
especially if you supported the 1/6/21 insurrection,
leave now.
Slava Ukraini!
Sunday, January 8, 2023
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I understand attitudes were different back then but being "Prevented quitting without employer's consent"? I can see why, but not sure what kind of quality you could get from a man that was refused quitting. Voting with your feet is the one universal right of all workers.
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w3ski, stop loss orders and such have been around for centuries, and work about as well as you’d expect. To be honest, I’d expect to start seeing actual fraggings occurring within the Russian military pretty soon, if they haven’t already. The idea of compelling people to risk their lives, and then providing them with explosives, has failed in quite spectacular ways before. Let’s just say I certainly wouldn’t want to be a junior grade, or perhaps even field grade, Russian officer right now.
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