- This means that about 35,000 men of the non-combat personnel will be laid off within the next five years, including some staff members of military chairs and other dual-purpose structures. It is also planned to do away with three hundred high-rank command posts, after which the number of generals and admirals in the Armed Forces will not top 1,100 men, meaning their reduction to the optimal proportion of one per thousand servicemen,... Sergei Ivanov {view}