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The Battle of Shanghai, 1937 Thirteen years after Commodore Matthew Perry steamed into Tokyo Bay, a nationalist rebellion overthrew the conservative Tokugawa Shogunate, installed the Emperor Meiji in power, and implemented a program of sweeping national reform. In an act no less stunning than the revolution itself, nearly all of the former ruling families voluntarily surrendered their power to the…
The South China Sea on the “Day after Taiwan” The South China Sea offers an ideal case study for future conflict off Chinese shores. Chinese and Western strategists once forecast that the Pacific Ocean constituted the most likely theater of twenty-first-century maritime competition between the United States and China. Admiral…
Strategic Preference #3: Mao Zedong, Meet Alfred Thayer Mahan The strategic preferences we are discussing are not fixed; they are leanings. As the PLA Navy approaches parity with the U.S. Navy, Mao’s grammar of active defense will come to resemble the Mahanian scheme for concentrated fleet-on-fleet engagements. Recall that the…
During the reign of Emperor Wu, he sent out Zhang Qian as his envoy to distant lands in the west, he brought back important information in regards to the Kushans, the Sogdians, and the Bactrians, as well as Parthia. Though the Xiongnu still operated fiercely in the area during his…
Until just five years ago, Manchurians were little more than backward bandits squabbling over pieces of torn fiefdoms. Today, we operate our own air force against all the enemies of a modernized Manchukuo. -Nobuhiro Uta, 1st Lieutenant, Doi ManshuTeikoku Kugun’ In 1640, Ming Dynasty control over China was falling apart.…
This major Arawasi publication, the result of more than ten years of exhaustive research in Japan by the authors George Eleftheriou and Kiri Domoto-Eleftheriou, includes hundreds of newly discovered, photos, most of high quality, and original material and information never covered in any publication before. Contents: * Pre-Manchukuo aviation in…
The Damansky Island (Zhenbao dao) is located in the Ussuri (Wusuli) River. It is about 200 meters to the Chinese side and 300 meters to the Russian side. The total area of the island is 0.74 square kilometers. Its middle part is a swampland with forests in the surrounding areas.…
The Gongchen tank displayed at the Beijing Military Museum. The Gongchen is the Chinese designation…
Han Dynasty: circa 202 BC – 220 AD Chinese naval developments occurred far earlier than…
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