
Way of the Heavenly Sword
This text examines the history of the Japanese army in the 1920s. In this decade, the ''Meija military system'' disintegrated and was replaced by a new ''Imperial Army System''. The Japanese victory over Russia in 1905 had changed the direction of Japanese military thought from almost total dependence on western rational military thinking to a more traditional reliance on morale as the preponderan...
This text examines the history of the Japanese army in the 1920s. In this decade, the ''Meija military system'' disintegrated and was replaced by a new ''Imperial Army System''. The Japanese victory over Russia in 1905 had changed the direction of Japanese military thought from almost total dependence on western rational military thinking to a more traditional reliance on morale as the preponderan...