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Great Power Strategy in Asia - Empire, Culture and Trade, 1905-2005 (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Great Power Strategy in Asia - Empire, Culture and Trade, 1905-2005 (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Great Power Strategy in Asia, 1905-2005 analyzes the enduring
themes underlying the strategic struggles in East Asia, beginning
with the crucial event of the 1904-5 Russo-Japanese War. Jonathan
Bailey clearly shows why military history is highly relevant in
understanding today's strategic problems, and how the most
important areas of current affairs have their roots in often
forgotten corners of military history. He makes his powerful case
in three clear sections: an analysis of the explosive factors that
led to war between Russia and Japan in 1904, presenting a ten-year
perspective of the War, focusing on its consequences: cultural
shock in 'the West', re-alignment of Asian imperial geography and
the failure to learn vital military lessons, as World War I
approached a thirty-five year perspective of the war, showing why
Japan repeated the essential strategic, operational and tactical
ploys of its war against Russia in 1904 in its strike upon the USA
in 1941. Allied victory assured the downfall of Europe's empires in
Asia, with the USA inheriting much of the old imperial legacy a
centennial view of the Russo-Japanese War, which demonstrates that
many of the broader issues identifiable in 1904-05 remain at the
heart of today's strategic discourse: Western apprehension about
the economic rise of Japan; the anomalies of an 'American Empire';
tensions between Occident and Orient; the apparent new relevance of
geopolitics; and the importance of demography in perceptions of
global power. This book is multidisciplinary, emphasizing the
linkages between imperial power-politics, military operations,
cultural conflict and commercial rivalry. It is also the story of
military innovation, the pathology of learning lessons from the
experience of war, and the anticipated rise of Asian, or more
specifically Chinese, power a century after the false dawn of the
Japanese victory in 1905. This book will be of great interest to
all students of the Russo-Japanese War, Asian security, and of
military and strategic studies.
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