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Japan Shocked the World
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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the early modern era and history of Japan continues with a video on the Russo-Japanese War and the Western perspective on it. In 1904, Japan stunned the world by taking on the Russian Empire and exposing a new kind of industrial warfare. This video explores not just how the Russo-Japanese War unfolded on land and at sea, but how Western observers reacted to seeing an Asian power defeat a European empire in the modern age. From the Yalu River and the siege of Port Arthur to Mukden, the Yellow Sea, and the annihilation of the Baltic Fleet at Tsushima, the conflict revealed the growing power of trenches, machine guns, heavy artillery, naval mines, wireless communications, and long-range gunnery. Yet many foreign observers, politicians, and officers failed to grasp the war’s real meaning. Racial prejudice, faith in offensive spirit, and excuses for Russian failure caused many militaries to dismiss the conflict’s lessons or apply them only partially. As a result, crucial warnings about siege warfare, firepower, logistics, and modern command were ignored before World War I. This video examines the battles, the eyewitness accounts, and the military reforms that followed, showing why the Russo-Japanese War was one of history’s clearest previews of the disasters to come in 1914. It also shows how bias can blind even experienced militaries to the future unfolding in front of them.
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