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Tenko, the Imperial Renovation Society, Althusser’s Pascal line, “Kneel down, move your lips in prayer, and you will believe.” Marxism being proven wrong by a 3000 year uninterrupted line of Japanese emperors, are all excuses for not wanting to be in jail, and on a certain level that’s OK.

I need to read more about urban development in the 1920s and 1930s in Japan.

Going back on the gold standard in January 1930 proved not to be a good move for Japanese democracy.

Liberal Republicans grow to subvert the Radicals.

If Americans aren’t familiar with this material already they would be shocked by this book.

The first chapter “What Was Operation Condor” is what I would recommend reading if you only ever want to read one chapter about Condor or clandestine intelligence cut outs in the 1970s.

The procurators pushed rehabilitation of thought criminals and then put them in a panopticon.

Just skimmed over the 1927 financial crisis. Wish more was covered on the failure of the Jugo Bank.

The rehabilitation of political thought criminals in 1930s Japan is probably a wet dream for John Yoos of the world.

Following on from another book on Japanese party politics that ended with Yamamoto stepping down after the Semens scandal his return in 1924 with an all star cabinet and the turmoil of the Great Kanto Earthquake seems like a host of missed opportunities blocked by the Seiyukai now firmly in a conservative position.

I certainly buy depoliticization as a motive for the cartel narrative.

Internal social relations were in a stable flux.

The economic and political detachment of New Mexico and the devastation of northern Mexico by years of raids, both done by the Comanches, was crucial to the victory of the US in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848.

Fantastic. Going to have to read the whole thing again to really grasp it. But the differing actions by the Comanches toward New Mexico and Texas show that they and not Spanish, or later Mexican, officials were in the driver’s seat.

So much trouble with reconnaissance. Nagumo’s timidity and Halsey’s recklessness. Also, the IJA just not cutting it against the Marines on Guadalcanal.

The examples of Comanche dominance in their alliance with the Spanish in the 1780s is fascinating.

“The War on Drugs is a cipher that masks the political strategy of large-scale community displacement for the appropriation and exploitation of natural resources that, if not for the War on Drugs, would remain unattainable for national and transnational capital.”

I’d buy that for a dollar.

The Comanche conceptions of trade and equity served them well against the baffled Spanish officials of New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana.

Wish I had a better grasp of the limits of Radical power. The klan smugness is that peculiar type of white Southern smugness that persists to this day.

Equestrian nomadism was an evolutionary turn of a highly innovative people with keen diplomatic skills and drastic caloric increase enabled them to dominate a large sections of current-day New Mexico and Texas by the 1760s.

I’m not at all familiar with the Comanches and Hamalainen is direct in saying his approach is different from the standard historiography. It sounds interesting.

Mead’s behavior as military governor reminds me of the stories of McClellan wanting to throw the war.

George Ashburn’s murder in Georgia sounds typical of all Klan murders. Also, finding out about the alternate spelling of Tuscaloosa as one favored by klansmen was a surprise that shouldn’t have been for me.

FD radar was not good for the Japanese.

Ha-ha, finally a mention of my favorite battleship Kongo.

The failure of the Johnson impeachment showed the limits of the Radical Republicans and we’d be a lot better off if they’d succeeded.

Confusing torpedo boats and landing craft for carrier and cruisers shows the psychological toll on the inexperienced Japanese airmen.

The political instability from having the military ministers not answerable to civilian control is toxic as all get out.

1965 report from Schulz to Johnson on the conditions of the south sounds interesting.