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Second U.S.-Japan Military-To-Military Dialogue
Second U.S.-Japan Military-to-Military Dialogue he EastWest Institute (EWI), in partnership with the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), convened the second meeting of the U.S.-Japan Military-to-Military Dialogue from April 16-17, 2018. T Senior retired flag officers from the U.S. military met with their counterparts from the Japan Self-De- fense Forces in Tokyo to discuss issues of critical concern to both countries and to address the intensified uncertainty in the Asia-Pacific region. The meeting occurred against the backdrop of the release of the U.S. National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy, and the Nuclear Posture Review, as well as Japan’s forthcoming National Defense Pro- gram Guidelines. It sought to engender enhanced strategic policy understanding and coordination be- tween the two allies, while eliciting concrete policy recommendations. While in Tokyo, the delegation spent a full day sharing respective views on defense planning and strategy to effectively address the changing allied power dynamics with China, Russia and North Korea. Launched in 2017, the process built on EWI’s key Track 2 dialogues—the U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue and the U.S.-China Sanya Initiative—to facilitate trust building and better coordi- nation between retired senior members of the U.S. and Chinese political parties and militaries. This U.S.- Japan dialogue process brings Japanese perspectives into EWI’s programmatic work and enhances its impact on identifying creative solutions to prevent conflict. In the future, EWI will seek to expand the dia- logue process and to include other countries in the region. -
The Australia-Japan Defence and Security Relationship: Past, Present and Future
The Australia-Japan Defence and Security Relationship: Past, Present and Future by Peter J McDermott AM, CSC, BSc, MSSM, Grad Dip Business Administration, Dip App Sci Air Navigation, Dip App Sci Aero-systems, Dip Admin Studies Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Deakin University April 2021 i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I have been supervised and advised by a dedicated and experienced panel who encouraged me, set high standards, improved my writing, and provided continual support. Principal supervisor, Professor Baogang He, Alfred Deakin Professor and Personal Chair in International Relations, guided me in a field new to me and challenged my assumptions. Associate Professor Bob Breen, as a military academic and author greatly assisted my thesis presentation and helped me draw out military arguments. Associate Professor Chengxin Pan set me on a security practitioner reporting path. I thank the 94 security practitioners who allowed me to record their experiences and insights into the defence and security relationship between Japan and Australia. Everyone considered that this relationship was important to improve mutual security, and to all, I owe a debt of gratitude. Their testimony gave credibility and authenticity to my research, and I offer this present thesis as a record of their places in Australian and Japanese security and military history. iv CONTRIBUTION STATEMENT Research requires the contribution of a collaborative team. The contribution of the following is gratefully acknowledged. • Deakin Supervisory team: Professor Baogang He, Associate Professor Bob Breen, and Associate Professor Chengxin Pan professionally provided welcome and valued direction, assistance, encouragement, and constructive criticism. • Examination Team: The examiners providing valuable input that made a material difference to the final thesis. -
Civil-Military Relations in Post WWII Japan
The Paradox of Antimilitarism: Civil-Military Relations in Post World War II Japan Takako Hikotani Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2014 Copyright 2014 Takako Hikotani All Rights Reserved ABSTRACT The Paradox of Antimilitarism: Civil-Military Relations in Post World War II Japan Takako Hikotani The changing security environment in Asia has led to a renewed interest in the Japanese Self Defense Forces (SDF). However, the SDF itself remains a black box: assessed either in terms of its problematic legal standing or physical military capacity, but with limited understanding of the people within; who they are, what they do, and how they think. This dissertation opens up the black box and brings the SDF officers into the analysis of civil-military relations in post-war Japan. I present a theoretical framework inspired by principal-agent theory, in which I hypothesize that the type of control (ex-ante or ex-post) and preference divergence between the civilians and the military produces four different outcomes in civil-military relations: containment, auto pilot, conflictual, and cooperative (possibly excessive). I examine how civil-military relations in Japan evolved over time and across three realms of defense policy making, budget, personnel, and use of force; utilizing the findings from an opinion survey conducted among SDF officers and civilian elite addressing the “civil-military gap,” oral history records of former SDF leaders and civilian defense officials, and interviews with active duty SDF officers and civilian officials. My research shows that civil-military relations in Japan was generally calm, not because the ex-ante constraints were strong and suppressed the opposing views of the SDF, but because the policy preferences of SDF officers and civilian bureaucracy converged in support of the alliance relationship with the United States.