Logistics push generally works better than logistics pull. Also, offensives generally involve seizing territory and forcing retreats, where digging in as you seize space may be more important than destruction.
Also, it suggests a few other bad things.
One possibility is that they don’t have the integrated command necessary to identify things like areas that are under heavy attack (and therefore need to spend more ammunition defending them).
Another is that their training programs are ineffective or non-existent, if one drone operator is substantially better than another, it means that operators are not interchangeable. This is undesirable, because it complicates deployment. Most specialists in most military occupations are intended to be interchangeable with each other. If they’re not, either the skill they have was acquired outside of training, or the training pipeline produces an irregular product.
Also, this is probably not great for morale if units are directly competing with one another for resources. Sabotaging other units’ performance is a way to get yourself better supplies.
So what we see is a military trying an innovative way of figuring out how to allocate scarce resources to units trying to defend fixed positions by having them directly compete with one another. This implies that they’re not expecting to seize much territory, that their unity of command is falling apart, and that their logistics are breaking down. Plausibly, it could also mean that some units simply are not fighting and that isn’t easily observable using sny other system.
Logistics push generally works better than logistics pull. Also, offensives generally involve seizing territory and forcing retreats, where digging in as you seize space may be more important than destruction.
Also, it suggests a few other bad things.
One possibility is that they don’t have the integrated command necessary to identify things like areas that are under heavy attack (and therefore need to spend more ammunition defending them).
Another is that their training programs are ineffective or non-existent, if one drone operator is substantially better than another, it means that operators are not interchangeable. This is undesirable, because it complicates deployment. Most specialists in most military occupations are intended to be interchangeable with each other. If they’re not, either the skill they have was acquired outside of training, or the training pipeline produces an irregular product.
Also, this is probably not great for morale if units are directly competing with one another for resources. Sabotaging other units’ performance is a way to get yourself better supplies.
So what we see is a military trying an innovative way of figuring out how to allocate scarce resources to units trying to defend fixed positions by having them directly compete with one another. This implies that they’re not expecting to seize much territory, that their unity of command is falling apart, and that their logistics are breaking down. Plausibly, it could also mean that some units simply are not fighting and that isn’t easily observable using sny other system.
Yikes.