A base de varias lecturas y revisiones sobre los 'cuarteles generales' de subunidades (de Batallon hacia abajo) del ejercito sovietico/ruso, me llamaba la atencion que, en comparacion con sus homologos occidentales, sus estructuras de mando eran (y siguen siendo en la actualidad) notablemente mas pequeñas.
Superando todos los topicos al respecto, las unica lectura mas o menos honesta que he encontrado al respecto es en varios articulos del especialista Lester Grau, en especial en el siguiente extracto.
'' The science of command involves the commander picking the best option for accomplishing the mission and adjusting variables as needed. This process is assisted by rigid tactics and predictability that allow such practices as utilizing tables that estimate the percentage of an enemy unit that will be destroyed with a given amount of time from a specified unit (artillery firing tables, etc.). In terms of tactics, from a U.S. military decision-making process (MDMP) perspective, Russian military commanders have limited options for developing plans to accomplish given tasks.
Commanders pick from the “menu” of known tactics. Although this would irk a U.S. commander, Russian commanders are comfortable with this system because, although tactics are simple, albeit in aggregate, when multiple simple tactics are combined to accomplish a given task, a given maneuver could appear complex. Since these maneuvers are not developed “on-the-fly” and are instead a collection of simple tasks, the planning process is much less involved than for an equivalent maneuver by a U.S. unit.At the tactical level, this system allows these units to have miniscule staffs in comparison to Western units and do not require extensive operations orders to plan their missions. All that is typically required in a Russian operation order is a map signed by the commander, with a few notes jotted in the margins. Tactics are simple and rigid, but since they are universal, when used in aggregate they can provide great operational flexibility.''
-- The russian way of war (2016)
Asi que por lo que entiendo, el emplear 'staff minusculos' se debe, reduciendolo mucho, a que utilizan un menu de tacticas predeterminadas y tablas de calculos, en el que el resultado da la opcion a ejecutar, lo que repercute en un proceso mucho mas agil y comodo para los mandos.
Hacen referencia a los siguientes manuales:
V.N. Zaritski and L.A. Kharkevich, General Tactics [Общая Тактика], Tambov: Tambov Government Technical
University, 2007.
Field Manual: Preparation and Conduct of Combined Arms Warfare [Боевой Устав: По Подготовке и Ведению
Общевойскового Боя], Moscow: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 2005.
Un saludo