The Russo-Japanese War 1904-5: Curtain Raiser for the Twentieth Century World Wars

From: RUSI Journal | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: Harvey, A D | Copyright information

February 2004 will see the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War. It was the first modern war: the first war in which both sides deployed large regular armies equipped with machine guns, magazine rifles, barbed wire and field guns firing High Explosive (HE) shells; organized in corps and divisions; and fighting battles lasting in some cases more than a week.

It was the war that saw the revival of the hand grenade as an infantry weapon and the first extensive u...

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