Yea but our reserves are still paid military right? More Army based? The Wagner group seems mostly mercenary style, with no loyalty to a country except to a payday. I could be way off tho.
What I mean though was that you don't want to commit your main fighting force if you don't have to, whether it be reservists or a mercenary group.
Between their own version of reservists and Wagner, Russia was in effect able to demilitarize Ukraine like it set out to do, without committing the main army, which had been saved for the inevitable introduction of NATO weaponry into the fight.
I'll admit I don't know very much about the military, I was just going off the name reserves. By definition, a layman would think they would be held in reserve to be called up when the main forces are almost exhausted...
Why are they calling up the reserves before using the regular troops? Seems like a weird move.
Its the thing to do. It's what Russia pretty much did in utilizing Wagner instead of the main forces.
Yea but our reserves are still paid military right? More Army based? The Wagner group seems mostly mercenary style, with no loyalty to a country except to a payday. I could be way off tho.
Our reservists are paid, I'm pretty sure.
What I mean though was that you don't want to commit your main fighting force if you don't have to, whether it be reservists or a mercenary group.
Between their own version of reservists and Wagner, Russia was in effect able to demilitarize Ukraine like it set out to do, without committing the main army, which had been saved for the inevitable introduction of NATO weaponry into the fight.
I'll admit I don't know very much about the military, I was just going off the name reserves. By definition, a layman would think they would be held in reserve to be called up when the main forces are almost exhausted...