Salus Maior wrote:Britanania wrote:By having a civilian led military, of course. That's the same reason the US has never suffered a military coup, but every other Presidential system has: the military and government are rather separated. Germany's problem was that the military was basically a state in its own right, same with Japan.
Wasn't the Kaiser technically in charge of the military in the Imperial German/Prussian constitution?
Ehhhhhh
By the end of the Great War, Hindenburg was basically in control of the government.