One reason for the high death rate today is that Russia has botched many of its advances, particularly in northern Ukraine
THE WAR was nearly over, Yakov Rezantsev assured his troops on day four of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That was a month ago. On March 25th the lieutenant-general, commander of Russia’s 49th Combined Arms Army, was reportedly dead, killed in a strike near the city of. Ukrainian officials say he was the seventh Russian general to die in action in Ukraine; Western ones agree. Russia has not confirmed this, and the tally has not been independently verified.
America lost nine generals in combat in Vietnam, though that was over 20 years rather than a few weeks, and most died when their helicopters were shot down. In the past two decades of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, just one American general died—and he was shot by an Afghan soldier. Even during its bloody occupation of Afghanistan in 1979-89, the Soviet Union is thought to have lost no more than six generals in the first six months of war.
That is not inherently bad—a good commander needs to get a feel for the front. The bigger problem may be that these adventurous generals have sloppy security. Russian forces have modern Azart encrypted radios, but these seem to be too few in number—possibly because of corruption—according to a report by the Royal United Services Institute, a British think-tank.
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