What a nice present for the 100th post of this blog, a review of In Defense of Japan by The Military Review. In Defense of Japan got top billing!

This follows on from great reviews by U.S. Space Command’s High Frontier Journal and Foreign Affairs. We were especially gratified by the U.S. Space Command’s review, which called IDOJ a “model analysis.”

Here are the highlights of the Military Review piece (with the caveats in the full text of course)

“So Japan’s defense policy, like perhaps most such policies, is a mixture of realistic pragmatism within norms-based constraints. Authors Saadia Pekkanen and Paul Kallender-Umezu have added nuance to this picture in their excellent case study on Japan’s space policy. The authors are especially effective in demonstrating the impact corporate interests have in shaping Japan’s defense policy. They trace what they describe as Japan’s “market to the military” trend in space policy…

…This book is a readable, cogent examination of the interaction of corporate interests with national security interests, and adds needed nuance to the emerging understanding of Japan as an important player in the field of international security.” COL David Hunter-Chester, USA, Retired,
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Review of IDOJ by Colonel David Hunter-Chester in The Military Review, July-August 2012