No, it’s worse than that.
Shortly before WWII, Stalin gutted the officer corps of the Red Army in order to replace career military men with those more dependable politically. This move cost the Sov’s dearly when the nazis attacked, but to a dictator political reliability is everything.
Obama has been purging our officer corps for some time, working from higher to lower rank. We are now down to major.
Don’t be surprised when the new lgbt, Islamic, illegal army; led by Obama’s hand picked officers, shows no loyalty to their oaths or to the American people.
Horrible !
Yours is one of the more inane comments to ever appear on Free Republic. To compare this to the Stalin purges displays a remarkable ignorance of history and the facts in play here.
The Obama “purge” is a myth.
What is going on is a reduction in the size and capability of our Armed Forces, but in particular, the Army. Obama doesn’t like armies, especially our own and he has long wanted to cut it to the bone. This is what he is doing. When the Army get smaller, they need fewer Captains, Majors, etc. on down the ranks. Some of these folks won’t be missed much, they are mediocre performers who have been riding the wave. But, many are fine officers who will fall victim to Obama’s desire to spend more money stuffing the pockets of his voters.
Reductions in the aftermaths of wars has been happening throughout the history of the Army. More recently it happening three times after Vietnam, after Gulf War I, and now yet again. Nothing new, not a purge. But, every time that we have done it, we have discovered that we cut too deeply and that we had to build back up to get the Army that we needed. Politicians, though, aren’t too bright and this guy tips the scale on that point.
And I can tell you from first-hand experiences that the PC line is being toed throughout the ranks. Folks are afraid to act normally or sanely and it is torture to see some trying to justify their "enlightened" stances as more and more attention (like the Eye of Mordor) is directed downward.
Exactly.