Wikipedia gives 1,107 Russian generals for the year 2008. Seven might be high in the sense that usually militaries conduct their operations in a way to avoid generals dying but it’s a rounding error when estimating the total amount of generals that Russia currently has.
Locating and targeting generals in real-time is probably easier now than it was at any point during the 20th century, so a top-heavy command structure makes sense.
Wikipedia gives 1,107 Russian generals for the year 2008. Seven might be high in the sense that usually militaries conduct their operations in a way to avoid generals dying but it’s a rounding error when estimating the total amount of generals that Russia currently has.
Locating and targeting generals in real-time is probably easier now than it was at any point during the 20th century, so a top-heavy command structure makes sense.
From what I understand from Devereaux articles on modern armies, I would expect modern armies to have a lot of lower ranks officers but actually not that many generals, given the emphasis on local, low level adaptation and décision. https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-chemical-weapons-anymore/
Russian army has very many non-battle units. For example, Logistical Support. This units have own generals too.
Even military band conductor can be a general in Russia.