Re:The other kind of staff software engineer
by Spooky23 on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:35PM
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You’re used to reading about western militaries.
Look at the Ukraine War… Russia clearly completely ignored logistics and failed in their attempt at a “modern” war and quickly degraded to a WW1 style artillery duel.
And yes, being a NCO or field officer in the Russian army is miserable.
Re:The other kind of staff software engineer
by chrisseaton on Friday May 13, 2022 @08:18PM
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> First time I've ever heard these two things talked about as a matter of "this versus that" and not "combat and logistics".
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic? Or haven’t read much about the military and are assuming?
Combat vs combat support vs combat service support (logistics) is a very common and very significant distinction to make and usually matters a lot for a great many things.
Has a logistics branch officer ever led a major Army? We had an artillery officer in the UK and even that was a talking point at the time.
First time I've ever heard these two things talked about as a matter of "this versus that" and not "combat and logistics".
I'd hate to be a CO or NCO under a General who looked at the two as somehow adversarial or mutually exclusive in terms of planning and resourcing.
Yours is quite an interesting analogy, here.