Originally Posted by
peter we
Russia could train 60k per 3months. Most of the triaing is performed in units, which are now in Ukraine. Trainers were also sent to the front and are probably dead.
Will take many years to rebuild their army.
The Russian “plan” if you can call it that is mass mobilization, give every new soldier the basic infantry kit out and then send them to the front lines where they will learn on the job or die. Russia absolutely has the capability to provide basic kit to 500,000 soldiers. The hash they made of the last mobilization was due to bureaucratic incompetence and corruption, not the lack of material or the industrial base to generate a soldier’s basic kit.
As the old saying goes quantity has a quality all of its own. Russia has clearly demonstrated that they do not value soldiers lives and will maintain field discipline with the constant threat of summary execution. I expect that the senior Ukrainian commanders are very concerned at the possibility of overwhelming mass assaults. Some estimates put the kill ratio at 5 to 1 in favour of Ukraine but that won’t work when Russia can put numbers of 10 to 1 at a point of their choosing.