Online Public Relations Thoughts

A continuous shuffle of generals affects troop morale.  It is as if the top doesn't know what it is doing and is grasping for anything to make headway. Putin's replacement of his lead general after just three months smacks of desperation.  It communicates a lack of trust felt down to the trenches.  The soldier reflects bitterly comrades are dying while command is playing merry-go-round.  It is not the first time such shifting has happened.  Famously, Abraham Lincoln cycled through generals in the Civil War until he settled on Grant.  The difference so far is that Grant made headway while Ukraine is still a battle of inches.  Ukraine still has a unified command and that is no small part a reason for its defensive success.