An Inoffensive Rearmament
The Making of the Postwar Japanese Army
Colonel Frank Kowalski served as the Chief of Staff of the American military advisory group that helped establish the National Police Reserve, the predecessor to the Japan Self-Defense Forces, and provided daily guidance to it during its first two years of existence. In this book, Kowalski provides, with great care, a detailed account of the manning, logistics, and personalities involved in standing up, on short notice, of a force of approximately 75,000, while sharing insights about the diplomatic, political, legal, and constitutional challenges his headquarters and his Japanese counterparts faced in navigating this new course for Japan in t…
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Weitere Autoren: Eldridge, Robert D. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-61251-373-7
- EAN: 9781612513737
- Produktnummer: 21842303
- Verlag: Naval Institute Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 389 KB
- Auflage: Digital Only
Über den Autor
Frank Kowalski, Colonel, United States Army, member of Congress from Connecticut, died in 1974. He was Chief Military Governor in Kyoto, Japan, 1948-49 and Deputy Chief of Civil Affairs in Japan 1950-52. He retired from the Army in 1958.Robert Eldridge earned his Ph.D. in Japanese political and diplomatic history at Kobe University, and is the author of numerous works about U.S.-Japan relations including Fighting Spirit (Naval Institute Press, 2011). He currently serves as the deputy assistant chief of staff, G-7 (Government and External Affairs) for Marine Corps Installations Pacific.
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