No one was more influential in this regard than Brigadier General Bonner F. Fellers, MacArthur’s military secretary and the chief of his psychological-warfare operations. Fellers cut his teeth as an analyst of the Japanese psyche while attending the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth as an army captain in 1934–1935. While there, he prepared a research study entitled “The Psychology of the Japanese Soldier” that was prescient and remained dear to his heart. In this study, Fellers anticipated war between Japan and the United States over four years before it broke out and even
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