June 2022 Brief - Russian Military Logistics - | | - The inadequacy of Russia’s military logistic system

If this observers could fail to be impressed by the is coupled with a lack of tactical appreciation, as pictures that appeared in the media in the early was the case with Russia in Ukraine, failure will stages of the war of a Russian logistic convoy, be compounded. [...] In pull logistics, the ‘expeditionary logistics’, ‘push and pull’ logistics, demand signal originates from the consumer the Russian military doctrine of ‘active defence’, end – in any given battlespace, the combat force and finally, legacy Russian command philosophy at the ‘sharp end’ is the consumer that generates and military culture. [...] Combat power combination of push logistics and centralised in both the Russian Imperial and Red Army command makes Russia’s military logistic was built on a select officer corps with masses system even less responsive in the face of the of peasant soldiers and little middle-level unpredictable and inevitable variations in supply representation, a situation which essentially encountered in highly f. [...] The poor levels of personnel support and disregard for the welfare of individuals seen in Shortcomings in capability are exacerbated in the modern Russian military have their roots in Russian military logistic structures by the low 19th century Russian military philosophy. [...] In summary, the root cause of lines with a combination of offensive fires, much of the failure of Russia’s logistic planning UAVs, and hunter-killer teams will likely allow and execution is a lack of regard for individual the Baltic militaries, for example, to repeat personnel support based on a cultural bias Ukrainian tactical success, notwithstanding any towards mass and the needs of the group i.