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: LitMy
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.