This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Colonel Jeff McCausen, United States Army Retired

Artillery Men, CBS News about the Russian attrition.

This is John Bachelor, conversation with colleague Jeff McCausen, the United States Army retired

artillery men, CBS News, about what is said to be the attrition strategy used by the Kremlin. That is, we have more men than they do, will grind them down, similar

to the strategy of say World War I, Verdon, where Falkenhine, the German commander, believed he could bleed the French forces white.

This attrition strategy has weaknesses and Jeff McCausen identifies the area and what kind of weakness. It is a strange approach to the

war in the 21st century, as if it was 1915 all over again. Jeff McCausen on the meat grander he calls it.

More of this later.

Yeah, I think to a degree, John, they're forced into that kind of an attritional strategy again because of

forced structure the inability to have sufficient forces to have a breakthrough

force as I mentioned a moment ago. Mr. Putin does not want to expand conscription for the possibility of social unrest and he has tried to limit

conscription as we both know in the Western portion of Russia.

I think Moscow, think St. Petersburg, places like that where there has been at least minimal

with some quiet opposition to this particular conflict. I am receiving reports from colleagues of mine

that there is an intense effort by the

Russian military to convince young conscripts to now volunteer to become

professionals and actually enlist which would allow them then to be used in the

domedous for other places. Large scale, financial incentives to enlist beyond the

period for a conscript are being offered to these youngsters. In addition, there is some suggestion,

some portions of the Russian Federation. The government may be doing away with the deferments

offered to college students young males in terms of avoiding

or at least prolonging the period of time that they can be drafted.

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