Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Letter to Everett E. Hazlett, 20 Aug. 1956. The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Louis Galambos, vol. 17, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, p. 1941.
Japan was a militarist aggressive state when they started WWII in the Pacific. Their military brutalized China and almost every other country in Asia committing atrocities that those nations still are bitter about today. The unconditional surrender required that their new Constitution prohibit a military. However some of the Conservatives like Abe do not believe that Japan should be the only nation denied a military. Most of the rest of Asia even resents and fears the defense forces that they have and would seriously oppose a reestablishment of a military.
There is frequently a disagreement between the military and civilian leaders just as there are disagreements among most political personnel. Hawks, and people who have had experience in the military tend to think that military advice on military matters should be determinative with the President and Congress. Others tend to believe that military advice should be considered, but if it were always adhered to, there would be no point in having civilian control over the military. See {639667} for an example of when military leadership advice prevailed and it was a mistake.
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower GCB OM GCS CCLH KC NPk was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front.
