[mamonster]

>Much like Stalin's purges of the Red Army before WWII, there's a massive trade-off between political loyalty and operational competence.

Completely different.

Stalin purged people with war experience to replace them with people with less war experience. Xi is purging pencil pushers and is going to replace them with other pencil pushers.

Let's not act like Xi is purging Bradley or MacArthur

[maxglute]

More like Xi is replacing pushing pencil pushers that pecks on keyboard with starcraft generation with 300 APM. The teritary/technical uplift between generation is huge. The only people less qualified to to operate modern multi domain / systems warfare than lol Sino-Vietnam vets are the vets before them.