The reserve discussion turns to Ukraine. A participant understands many people called up to have some prior service, and Alex connects that pool to successive cohorts since the war began in 2014. Repeated service and continuing conflict are described as accumulating experience before the wider invasion. The argument concerns the value of a trained reserve rather than providing a quantified assessment of mobilization.
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Ukraine's successive cohorts of trained reservists
Prior service and repeated training cohorts are used to explain how mobilization can draw on an existing pool of experience.