The Japanese empire grand strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
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 requ...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Meiji generation
- 2. The First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5)
- 3. The Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)
- 4. The transition from a maritime to a continental security paradigm
- 5. The Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-41)
- 6. The General Asian War (1941-5)
- 7. Japan betwixt maritime and continental world orders