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Great Power Strategy in Asia - Empire, Culture and Trade, 1905-2005 (Paperback)
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Great Power Strategy in Asia - Empire, Culture and Trade, 1905-2005 (Paperback)
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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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