Druss_The_Legend
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I think the biggest problem for the Russians is fear of failure at every level of military and the severe personal and family consequences of those mistakes so nobody wants to make decisions.This leads me to the conclusion that the entire war have been led from top down by people who are decidedly not generals, and that do not take the advice of the generals in regards of how to run the war.
Here it is good to note that neither Putin, nor Shoigu have any military training.
None. Not even the back then mandatory soldiers training in the Soviet Army.
So every decision is passed along the lines until it gets to the top, it is then passed back down back to the bottom by the time the message is back to the men on the ground the dynamics and circumstances have changed(things can and have changed rapidly in this conflict) and the orders are almost irrelevant so then a decision needs to be made follow through with the orders or pass the message through the chain again.
It quickly becomes a situation where nobody is able or willing to use initiative and anyone who is able or willing to use initiative is taken out one way or another as these are seen as threats to Russian leadership itself.