CAS PO 141 Lecture Notes - Nations Of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Monroe Doctrine
21 Apr 2014
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The dramatic outcome of the russo-japanese war shook american naval strategists out of their complacent attitude toward japan. Japanese prowess on land and sea generated a tremendous amount of respect among european and american military and naval observersthis conclusion, in turn, would force the navy to rethink its entire pacific strategy (162) The treaty of portsmouth brokered by president roosevelt ended the war and ominously confirmed japan in its position as the dominant power in east asia. Most alarming to naval strategists was the realization that the destruction of the russia fleet and the withdrawal by other powers (including the united states) or their battleships from asian waters left japan in command of the western pacific. Equally, it meant that the philippines, far from being a springboard to asia, had become in theodore. American policy makers pursued to interrelated courses of action.
