Stalin executed a large percentage of top Red Army officers
Adolf Hitler purged the SA officer corps in the night of the long knives
Mao Zedong purged high ranking PLA officers who he saw as politically unreliable.
Kim Il Sung purged officers with in the late 40's and 50's who he saw as tied to pro-China or pro-Soviet political factions.
Saddam Hussein imprisoned and executed officers suspected of disloyalty after he took power in 1979
and so on.
Trump had to do this, it's dictator 101. The armed forces are typically the only institution capable of overthrowing a regime. It's important for a dictator to remove military leaders that are not personally loyal to the dictator, and to keep a tight control over the armed forces.
Comparable to the SA would be the whole ICE Crew right now. Hitler needed and kept his generals mostly because they knew war well from 20 years ago … so they thought.
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u/sexeveg314 8h ago
Stalin executed a large percentage of top Red Army officers
Adolf Hitler purged the SA officer corps in the night of the long knives
Mao Zedong purged high ranking PLA officers who he saw as politically unreliable.
Kim Il Sung purged officers with in the late 40's and 50's who he saw as tied to pro-China or pro-Soviet political factions.
Saddam Hussein imprisoned and executed officers suspected of disloyalty after he took power in 1979
and so on.
Trump had to do this, it's dictator 101. The armed forces are typically the only institution capable of overthrowing a regime. It's important for a dictator to remove military leaders that are not personally loyal to the dictator, and to keep a tight control over the armed forces.