[MarkSheppard]

Continuing to work on the Japanese entry; I'll also make other entries for:

North Korea
South Korea

There's a lot of craziness involved in South Korea -- for example, did you know that the US created the "Korean Constabulary" (KC) to maintain internal security, and that on 4/5/1949 2 battalions of the 8th Korean Constabulary mutinied and crossed the 38th Parallel to join the NKPA?

West Germany
East Germany

I already have data on East Germany's tank acquisitions through the cold war:

The Kaisernierte Volkspolizei (Barracked People's Police) (KVP) requested 144 x IS-2s from the Soviet Union as part of a plan to form heavy tank and self propelled gun regiments, each of which would consist of 47 IS-2s and 22 x SU-100s. Due to only 47 IS-2's being supplied by the Soviet Union, only a single heavy tank regiment could be fully equipped; composed of:

Heavy Panzer Battalions (21 tanks)
consisting of
4 x Heavy Panzer Companies (5 tanks)

With the founding of the KVP's successor, the Nationale Volksarmee (NVA), the tanks were passed on to the NVA's 14th Panzer Regiment (7th Panzer Division) and the 21st Panzer Regiment (9th Panzer Division), with each Panzer Regiment deploying a single Heavy Panzer Battalion of 19 tanks each.