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Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World
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The Problem With the Army Ministers
Pakistan is always one of those places where you're very poor civilian control on the military. In Japan, your army ministers were well part of the army and they weren't representing the civilian government. Even example is it's a funny thing. The Indian ambassador to China in 1962 was told by a big man: Are you are a bastard to them?Are you dare a bastard to us? And that led to a sort of elite capture of the civilian government by the army.
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