Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian
The officers who were purged were precisely those who advocated the new style of warfare. Tukhachevsky, the prime exponent of Deep Operations, was purged, as were most of the others. Rokossovsky was lucky to survive. Without the purges, the Soviets would have had the same doctrine that they later adopted with great success, but with officers at all levels versed in that doctrine.
I didn't know that. Thanks for the info...