[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]An observant crewman on the Russian battleship, [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Petropavlovsk[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif], spots that the vessel i[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]s heading towards a minefield, is able to give warning and saves the ship. Later, with Stepan Makarov promoted to Admiral, despite the superiority of the Imperial Japanese Navy's ships, he gives the Japanese Admiral Togo a very difficult time and changes the course of the war. [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Japan loses all four of the Sakhalin and Kurile Islands to Russia, and is barely able at the end to win the war. There is a great wave of public anger over the huge losses and near defeat in Japan. This anger worsens as military historians and a governmental investigation reveal the in[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]competence, lack of preparation, and ill-placed over-confidence of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. General Nogi Maresuke is disgraced by the investigations despite earlier being regarded as a hero; in atonement he commits suicide, but leaves a letter which sparks further controversy about the Japanese military conduct of the war. These scandals together force a re-thinking of strategies and the realisation that Japan needs improved tactics, substantially better strategic thinking, more rapid modernisation of technology, and well equipped forces. An important political and social consequence is a dramatic weakening of the too commonly prevalent delusion in Japanese racial superiority, and the previous tendency towards "victory disease".
What are the likely results of this in Russia? What effect would it have on the Russian military during the Great War and afterwards?
How would it affect the next military conflict between Russia and Japan? What effect would it also have on Japan's strategies and equipment, etc, in the Pacific War? What would that affect in Europe?
I have the sneaky suspicion that WW2 would be messier, slightly longer. Possibly also that Russia ends up taking all of Germany (no West/East split).
Btw, hello everyone. My first post on this board
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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]An observant crewman on the Russian battleship, [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Petropavlovsk[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif], spots that the vessel i[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]s heading towards a minefield, is able to give warning and saves the ship. Later, with Stepan Makarov promoted to Admiral, despite the superiority of the Imperial Japanese Navy's ships, he gives the Japanese Admiral Togo a very difficult time and changes the course of the war. [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Japan loses all four of the Sakhalin and Kurile Islands to Russia, and is barely able at the end to win the war. There is a great wave of public anger over the huge losses and near defeat in Japan. This anger worsens as military historians and a governmental investigation reveal the in[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]competence, lack of preparation, and ill-placed over-confidence of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. General Nogi Maresuke is disgraced by the investigations despite earlier being regarded as a hero; in atonement he commits suicide, but leaves a letter which sparks further controversy about the Japanese military conduct of the war. These scandals together force a re-thinking of strategies and the realisation that Japan needs improved tactics, substantially better strategic thinking, more rapid modernisation of technology, and well equipped forces. An important political and social consequence is a dramatic weakening of the too commonly prevalent delusion in Japanese racial superiority, and the previous tendency towards "victory disease".
What are the likely results of this in Russia? What effect would it have on the Russian military during the Great War and afterwards?
How would it affect the next military conflict between Russia and Japan? What effect would it also have on Japan's strategies and equipment, etc, in the Pacific War? What would that affect in Europe?
I have the sneaky suspicion that WW2 would be messier, slightly longer. Possibly also that Russia ends up taking all of Germany (no West/East split).
Btw, hello everyone. My first post on this board
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