History Question: What are those Mongolian Cavalry Divisions?

[Q-Ball]

...Are they Manchukuo forces in IJA service? There are alot of those divisions, they can't all be actual Mongolians. There aren't enough, and anyway Mongolia is a Soviet Republic. Just curious, their combat value is pretty low. Did Manchukuo have an army per se, under IJA control, or did all Manchukuoians (if that is a term), serve in actual IJA units?

[AmiralLaurent]

Local forces under IJA controls. Mandchukuo had a great population, part of it of Mongolian ethnicity and they were serving in cavalry divisions under Japanese command.

The Mongolian state didn't really exist at the time (it was under the influence of Soviet Union and was still an artificial construction IMOO) and Mongolian cavalrymen served in Mongolian, Soviet, Japanese and Chinese armies during the 30s and 40s.

[Alikchi2]

Mongolia "officially" existed a s a Soviet puppet state. The Japanese set up there o wn version, called Inner Mongolia, carved out of their Chinese conquests..

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Alikchi

Mongolia "officially" existed a s a Soviet puppet state. The Japanese set up there o wn version, called Inner Mongolia, carved out of their Chinese conquests..

I beg to differ that it "officially" existed as a puppet state. It "officially" existed as a sovereign nation. De facto, however, the fate of the government/regime as a whole largely depended on the good graces of the USSR, just as China did. That, I beleive, is the deffinition of a puppet state.

[Alikchi2]

Point taken