Therefore, in the revision in 1918 and in 1923, the military submitted the policy to the Cabinet and requested the agreement, and in the revision in 1936, it showed willingness to compromise with the government to formulate a coherent imagined enemy based on the opinion from the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
このため、大正7年と12年の改定では閣議に提出して同意を求め、昭和11年の改定では外務大臣(日本)に意見を求めて整合性のある仮想敵策定を行うなど、軍側から政府へと歩み寄る姿勢も見せた。