Description: When during the night of the 8th of February 1904 the relatively small Japan launched a surprise attack against ...

Last week we saw the Japanese launch a surprise attack on the Russians at Port Arthur and the early stages of the ensuing ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The setback that the Japanese dealt to the Russians in 1904-05 helped shape the contours of Asian politics for a century. (This article first appeared in 2014.) The Russo ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: World War I and World War II so transformed the maps of both Europe and Asia that discerning the influence of antecedent conflicts like the Russo-Japanese War can be ...

On television and online, commentators reach furiously for comparisons to past conflicts for insights into the Ukrainian-Russian war. How will it ever end? At the same time, military analysts watch ...

One hundred seventeen years ago, an indecisive regional war between Imperial Russia and Japan produced revolution within Russia. In January 1905, in the midst of the Russo-Japanese War (which began in ...

Portsmouth marks the 115th anniversary Saturday of its hosting of peace talks that ended the Russo-Japanese War. The 1905 armistice earned President Theodore Roosevelt a Nobel Peace Prize for ending ...

Conferences of the oriental species have precisely the same traits as those of occidental origin. The conference at Tokyo between Japan and Soviet Russia to effect a trade agreement and possible ...

On television and online, commentators reach furiously for comparisons to past conflicts for insights into the Ukrainian-Russian war. How will it ever end? At the same time, military analysts watch ...