The modern commander needs to stay connected, says the head of Ukraine’s ground forces. He gets 300 messages a day from soldiers. “You must feel the spirit of the army,” he tells The Economist in a rare interview
Not unusually for his generation, General Syrsky went to school with many Russian commanders. He graduated from the Higher Military Command School in Moscow, the Soviet Union’s equivalent of America’s West Point. But that is largely where the similarities end. His own command style departs starkly from Soviet and Russian hierarchical practice. He preachesprinciples of decentralised command, and stresses the importance of morale. The modern commander needs to stay connected, he says.
In the Kharkiv region General Syrsky used light, mobile groups that he built by picking out small units from existing brigades. His most ambitious objectives—overrunning two crucial Russian logistical hubs in Kupyansk and Izyum—were fulfilled by day five. The commander says he was as surprised as anyone by the speed of progress.
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