Alexander Von Falkenhausen And Nanjing Koumintang Government's National Defense And The Anti-Japanese War (1934-1938)

This article focuses on the thought and implementation,Alexander von Falkenhausen for the Nanjing Koumintang government′s national defense and the Anti-Japanese war form 1934 to 1938,and made the historical dialectical evaluation. As German military general consultant, he influenced China mainly in the form of his recommendations.Falkenhausen′s national defense and military thought mainly contains the ideas of the war planning against Japan, strategies and tactics of the Anti-Japanese war,the ideas of building national defense systems, these ideas constitute a complete system. Falkenhausen served as military general consultant in the early days, made the war planning against Japan , advocating positive anti-Japanese thinking, and gave us suggestion that Japan launched a war of aggression against China on the strategic steps, strategic direction as well as our military action on the defense.Falkenhausen stand for lasting strategy of active defense, active defense, training new IDF, and the interrelated command, are the major part of his lasting war thought. Falkenhausen taked us the tactical thought that tire by trench warfare, by campaign warfare, by interrelation warfare, by guerrilla warfare.Falkenhausen taked the training new army as the core content, and the military command and staff structure of a modern military is important also. Falkenhausen thought that the national defense should train the Army of fighting capability in the first , become...