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Anyone got any ideas of exactly what would be required to establish a third branch of the Japanese armed forces in the late twenties/early thirties by breaking of all land-based airplanes and base forces for them?
An act of god (i.e. the emperor)?
Both branches believing it will be easier to influence a third and young branch to do it's bidding?