Sarah Paine: How Imperial Japan Crushed Tsarist Russia & Qing China
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So I'm gonna talk to you today about one of the two great generations in modern Japanese history, and they are the Meiji generation named after the Meiji emperor here. And that generation transformed Japan into the only and the first and the only non Western modern power in that period. And the second great generation of modern Japanese is, of course, the post war generation that transformed ask a question, or try to both ask and answer it, is what caused the reversal of the balance of power in Asia in the period that I'm gonna talk to you about? And it's a really consequential question about
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So I've talked about Japan's westernization, and I've talked about its master of grand strategy. And now here's my third reason of how they how they overturn the balance of power. And it has to do with pegging the culminating point of victory in the Russo Japanese war. And now for commercial break, I'm gonna give you some terminology, which are culminating point of attack, culminating point of victory. They're different. Combining point of attack is an operational term. If you do not reach your culminating point of attack, it means you could have gone further, and it applies the coming point o
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