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Название: The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War Автор: S. C. M. Paine Издательство: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107011957 Год: 2019 Формат: PDF Страниц: 223 Для сайта:Миркниг Размер: 5,6 МБ Язык: Английский
The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containment of Russia. Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) but became overextended in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-45), which escalated, with profound consequences, into World War II. A combination of incomplete institution building, an increasingly lethal international environment, a skewed balance between civil and military authority, and a misunderstanding of geopolitics explains these divergent outcomes.