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Inglorious, Illegal Bastards - Japan's Self-Defense Force during the Cold War (Hardcover)
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Inglorious, Illegal Bastards - Japan's Self-Defense Force during the Cold War (Hardcover)
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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In Inglorious, Illegal Bastards, Aaron Herald Skabelund examines
how the Self-Defense Force (SDF)-the post-World War II Japanese
military-and specifically the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF),
struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent to them
and often hostile to their very existence. From the early
iterations of the GSDF as the Police Reserve Force and the National
Safety Force, through its establishment as the largest and most
visible branch of the armed forces, the GSDF deployed an array of
public outreach and public service initiatives, including off-base
and on-base events, civil engineering projects, and natural
disaster relief operations. Internally, the GSDF focused on
indoctrination of its personnel to fashion a reconfigured
patriotism and esprit de corps. These efforts to gain legitimacy
achieved some success and influenced the public over time, but they
did not just change society. They also transformed the force
itself, as it assumed new priorities and traditions and contributed
to the making of a Cold War defense identity, which came to be
shared by wider society in Japan. As Inglorious, Illegal Bastards
demonstrates, this identity endures today, several decades after
the end of the Cold War.
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