Word: meckel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born, 1885. The Japanese, when they first opened themselves to the world, had modeled their fighting forces on the French. But France's humiliation in the Franco-Prussian War eventually turned the Japanese genius for emulation toward Germany. In 1885 a student of Marshal von Moltke, Major Meckel, went to Japan with a military mission to teach the sword swingers the smell of powder...
...Meckel taught them the principles of Clausewitz, which they eagerly took over, revamped, stamped Made in Japan. After a victory at Liao-Yang in the Russo-Japanese War, Field Marshal Prince Iwao Oyama cabled Meckel: "We hope you are proud of your pupils...