The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force
Midford, Paul / Eldridge, Robert D.![The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/295/29587811/CHSBZCOP0329587811.jpg)
Based on extensive Japanese-language materials, this book is the first to examine the development of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force. It addresses: how the GSDF was able to emerge as the post-war successor of the Imperial Japanese Army despite Japan’s anti-militarist constitution, how the GSDF, despite the public skepticism and even hostility that greeted its creation, built domestic and international legitimacy, and how the GSDF has respon...