... Valery Gerasimov is the Russian general who devised their new geopolitical strategy of hybrid warfare. This is an integrated system of cyberattacks, subversion, espionage and propaganda aimed at undermining Russia's adversaries without firing a single shot.
While Americans bankrupt themselves so as to re-fight the last war, it literally sneaks in the back door. It now seeks to use all of our own weaknesses, hypocrisies and momentum against us. Meanwhile, most Americans don't seem to realize that such a war even exists.
Honed in western Europe, its divisiveness is everywhere in our authoritarian age of President Donald Trump. Vladimir Putin's goal is the political demise of our very democracy itself.
The U.S. constitution was drafted by men who knew all the dark powers of authoritarianism, and the many challenges posed in building any real democracy. World history has documented the eagerness of leaders to impose their own beliefs as God's law. Racial, social, economic and political history shows the eagerness of strong-willed groups to dominate their neighbors. ...
I'm not sure what any of this has to do with a purge. If you're an officer who has been in 15-20 years, you're going to have peers who have been relieved of command.
A close friend of mine was relieved of command because the dudes in his squadrons were drawing dicks in the sky over Syria. Basically, flying in a pattern so that when you downloaded the post mission data, the flight path for the sortie would look like a dick. That ---- has been going on since Afghanistan. Many a Colonel, and even a General here or there, drew dicks over Afghanistan.