Army politics consumed an increasing share of Oikawa's attention while he tried to manage the Navy's decline. In this assessment, generals in influential positions often belonged to extreme factions. Generals outside those factions faced dangerous junior officers who also held extreme views. Pressure within the Army's own command structure therefore compounded the Navy's difficulty in working with it.
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Army extremism and pressure from junior officers
The discussion distinguishes extremist generals from other Army commanders under pressure from dangerous junior officers, complicating Oikawa's attempts at cooperation.