Fedorov dropped a brutal reality check on army chaos and drone rationing
Buying record numbers of drones sounds fantastic on paper, until you find out frontline units barely see them because supplies are handed out based on personal loyalty.
It turns out buying mountains of tech doesn't automatically fix the battlefield if the back office is running on pure feudal vibes. More drones were purchased in the last five months than in the entire previous year, yet most frontline fighters didn't even notice. Why? Because logistics are still handled manually: if the brass likes you, you get drones; if you're deemed disloyal, good luck.
Pushing through a completely basic blueprint to guarantee drones for brigades took four solid months of bureaucratic turf wars. Four months of paperwork while people on the zero line crowdfund for quadcopters.
The structural side isn't doing any better. The corps system is a total roll of the dice: some corps have five brigades, others have twelve. Battalions get randomly ripped from their units and tossed elsewhere, commanders get swapped around constantly, and nobody has a clue who is actually in charge. When things inevitably go sideways, the blame rolls straight downhill to the people in the trenches.
Pouring cutting-edge tech into a command culture built on favoritism and shifting blame usually just creates very well-equipped spreadsheets.
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