Many nations, like Russia’s army and China’s PLA, are shrinking their top-heavy officer corps in exchange for more NCO’s.
However, many of those officers in Russia/CIS/China are being moved into reserve units, so many of them will still have part-time work. This way, you can maintain larger units for much less money
Finally , The comblock countries finally learned from the NATO playbook, that NCO’s and not commissioned officers, are the backbone of any military force.