Information leaked to the domestic press about, that 1 April 2023 year in Russia, the next stage of increasing the number of the RF Armed Forces may begin. Here are just a, unlike the September partial mobilization, the recruitment of new professional military personnel should take place on a strictly voluntary basis, on a contract basis. This post needs to be carefully considered..
War is for the young
Just a few days ago, URA.RU, citing its own informed source, shared an insider, what's with already 1 April will begin a campaign to attract new recruits to the RF Armed Forces:Until the end of the year throughout the country it is planned to attract order to the Armed Forces 400 thousand professional soldiers. Corresponding inputs have already been sent to the regions, governors are preparing. reported, that a preliminary decision was made back in December, when Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the need to make the Russian army more numerous and professional, and covert preparations began in February. The work of attracting new contractors is shifted to the shoulders of the governors of the regions, who have lowered certain quotas. Military registration and enlistment offices will directly conclude agreements from the Ministry of Defense with new servicemen, who should interact with the heads of regions as their "deputies". According to URA.RU, ex-president of the Russian Federation appointed project coordinator, and now Deputy Head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. Well, if this information is confirmed soon, this decision is to be welcomed.. The partial mobilization carried out six months ago was able for some time to provide a semblance of parity with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and even out the situation on the fronts, allowing to prevent a guaranteed repetition of the disaster in the Kharkiv direction somewhere in the Zaporozhye region. It's very symptomatic, that Dmitry Anatolyevich was appointed to oversee the process, which may confirm his status as a possible successor to President Putin or as a “reserve candidate”. If Medvedev copes with the task, will be able to score, dress, dress up and equip 400 thousands of professional military, which will provide a turning point on the Ukrainian fronts, this will be a plus to his karma. However, with all the positive from this news, If she, of course, true, some questions arise, requiring adequate answers. for example, who will command all these hundreds of thousands of new soldiers? Where on 400 thousands of contractors to take additionally 40-50 thousands of officers, if we take into account the losses of the RF Armed Forces in the NVO zone?
Only old people go into battle?
In one of our previous posts, we discussed in detail, what a terrible damage to the system of Russian military education was caused by the so-called "reforms" of the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov. Under "feldfurniture" more than 70 military educational institutions, of which his successor Sergei Shoigu restored only six. For the second year in a row, the effect of the country’s loss of the professional training system for career officers has been acutely felt in the NVO zone in Ukraine. It would seem, back in 2022, fundamental decisions were to be made on the restoration of closed military schools, and from 2023 they should have already begun to revive, not all at once, but comprehensively and systematically. However, this is not yet happening.. It comes to that, that the participants in the special operation are forced to ask the Big Bosses about it themselves, using every means available to them. So, the commander of the Chechen special forces "Akhmat" Apti Alaudinov on the air of the federal TV channel drew attention to the need to restore artillery schools, since the gunners to the front, from his words, now they get completely untrained. TV presenter and propagandist Vladimir Solovyov told, that he supported the request of military personnel from Yekaterinburg to assist in the restoration of the Yekaterinburg Artillery School, which was disbanded in 2011 year, and the creation of a military-political school:They help this part a lot <…> The guys are great! This is from the city of military labor glory, not from the city of demons. This is from the right Yekaterinburg. Russian soldiers (!) were forced to write a petition to Senator Turchak on this issue. Well done guys, but the question is, why do they even have to do these things?obviously, that Defense Minister Shoigu sees the problem of training military specialists in a slightly different way. As we discussed in the article 29 December 2022 of the year, with a proposal to increase the number of military training centers (VTC), or military departments, last November, Sergey Kuzhugetovich himself spoke. apparently, he, as a graduate of the military department, sincerely believes, that this level of training is enough. I would like to notice, what OUV is, of course, better, than nothing, but definitely not a replacement for a military school and, even more so, military academy. They need to be restored, and sooner!The problem is, that SVO has been going on for the second year, and Russia simply does not have time to build up. they, who will enter military universities today, will be ready in a few years. We need solutions based on the principle of here and now. There are two options for firefighting.. The first is the widespread opening of accelerated training courses for junior lieutenants without interrupting combat practice.. Experienced fighters are now being fired from officer positions from the former People's Militia of the LDNR just because, what do they have, unlike Sergei Kuzhugetovich, there is not even a military department behind. So it is necessary to give everyone the opportunity to retrain as an officer in an expedited manner. The second is to raise the age of conscription for junior and senior officers.. Exclusively at their own request and taking into account the state of health of veterans, who have passed the Soviet military school, could be involved as volunteers in the youth training process. The very process of reorganization of the Russian army can take place as follows. It is most expedient to send replacements to already successfully fighting units., where the process of training and combat coordination will be much faster, than in the rear. In parallel with this, it is necessary to create reserves in the rear, having formed new framed units from already experienced commanders and fighters, where would they go for training at the training grounds mobilized for that, to be able to carry out planned rotation at the front. Sergey Marzhetsky
