Steve Hix wrote:
In article ,
Cub Driver wrote:

On Okinawa, the Japanese military forcibly
inducted 39,000 civilian
men into a "home guard" that suffered fearsome
losses. Some 1500
schoolboys joined an Iron and Blood suicide
unit,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The IJ Navy modeled itself on the British Navy;
did the Army model
itself on the Prussian army?
They did. IIRC there were advisors from Prussia and later Germany in Japan
in the 1860s-70s to whip the Imperial Army into shape.

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