A political reliability purge to consolidate power, pushing lower down the org, seems like a possibility to match the growing politicisation of senior leadership in recent decades.
I never would have expected to see mutated variants of communist party political commissars in western forces.
What is completely absent from the recent conversation about overstated right wing extremism risk in the US military is the very high public trust ratings earned by the US military and to a slightly lesser extent the 14k mostly local law enforcement agencies in the US.
The target of the Left in 2020 was ‘racist law enforcement’.
The target of the Left in 2021 is ‘insurrectionist right wing military’.
Meanwhile, public trust in Congress and Mass Media is only 1/4 to 1/6 that of the military and most local law enforcement.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1597/co...titutions.aspx
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...most/39663793/