bonfarr said:
AgLA06 said:
bonfarr said:
Has anyone seen any data on the number of men Ukraine can potentially conscript and train to build their forces? I believe they have already committed their reserves that spent 6 months training with Western forces. With the war over a year old there should be a new generation of men turning military age that may have been too young to join the fighting at the outbreak of the war.
If Russia conscripts another 200k men as they appear to be doing how will Ukraine rebuild their Army in sufficient numbers to continue the fight?
Ukes aren't Russia. They pull tired / chewed up units off the line to the rear and refit / train. Including previously trained units by the west.
They will still need to replace the men killed or wounded that are no longer in the fight. Do they have any ability to replace the men they are losing?
At the start of the war, Ukraine had ~11M males aged 15 to 53. If we assume fully half of those are not available for service (e.g. age, death, injury, infirmity, key civilian job, fled, etc.) that would still leave a male manpower pool of ~5.5M to draw from. Ukraine has tapped but a fraction of that number and it doesn't even include the millions of willing females. Raw manpower is unlikely to be a critical issue for Ukraine's military.