Ukraine has created online marketplaces allowing troops to choose their own weapons, rather than have them selected by officials (www.nytimes.com)
from Valnao@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 07:15
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tal@lemmy.today on 08 Apr 08:07 next collapse

Even if you don’t institutionalize that across the board in a military, doing that in a limited number of units and then comparing differences between the centralized and distributed procurement selections might be a good tool to flag potential areas where centralized procurement might be making the wrong call.

icelimit@lemmy.ml on 08 Apr 08:26 next collapse

This has been in place for quite some time.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world on 08 Apr 08:36 collapse

OK? I bet it’s news to a lot of people.

mctoasterson@reddthat.com on 08 Apr 11:12 next collapse

I just assumed it was a loot and repair system like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Yondoza@sh.itjust.works on 08 Apr 16:23 next collapse

This is meta, a democratic structure in the military of the democratic nation fighting authoritarianism.

leoj@piefed.zip on 08 Apr 17:47 collapse

I feel like this helps the units respond quicker to whatever counter they are running into on the other side of the line, so if they are using jammers send us fiber optics, if they are using counter weapons send us FPVs and so on and so forth, kind of genius to be honest.

You don’t have to wait for a decision tree of officers if you can just order a different kind of drone.