In Samuel Huntington's famous theory of "objective civilian control", he seems to say that professionalism makes military politically neutral, but he also worries that military is drawn into political engagement by constitutional form of United States. The theory is praised often as "elegant". Why?
In the Meiji period, Japanese military was professionalized and prohibited strictly from acting politically by legal framework. So, can Huntington's theory be applied to Japanese military in the early Meiji era?