TY  - BOOK
AU  - HUMPHREYS Leonard A
TI  - The way of the heavenly sword: the Japanese army in the 1920's
SN  - 0804723753 (hbk.)
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Stanford, Calif., USA
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - ARMY
KW  - DOCTRINE
KW  - JAPAN
N2  - The author focuses on the disintegration of the Meiji military system from 1919-1929 and its replacement by a new "Imperial Army System" which turned away from Western military thinking, insisting instead on the primacy of morale as the means to victory
ER  -