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>Интересно. Подробности есть?

Есть))

Напр.,

Japanese war plans constitute one of these key areas. Coverage of this topic in the official history is muted: “Initially our army’s general design was to wage a major war in Manchuria, where the army would repulse the main force of the enemy far to the north, while the navy’s aim was, first, to destroy the Russian Pacific Squadron, and then to acquire naval supremacy in the Far East.” This generalized narrative conveys little insight into actual pre-war Japanese operational assessments and calculations. In contrast, the uncorrected main draft is more to the point. It argued that, whereas the maritime province (Primor’e) belonged to Russia proper in the beginning, Manchuria was only a Russian sphere of influence, with the exception of the leased territories (Port Arthur and the Kwantung peninsula). However, the Russians had devoted more energy and resources to the latter than to the former. The Ussuri region, connected with Europe by rail and with the Pacific Ocean by maritime access, had neither ice-free ports such as Dalian (Dal’nii) and Port Arthur nor such fertile land as Manchuria. In contrast, Harbin, a rail, river, and road hub for the entire region, was a point of strategic and political importance. The draft concluded, “Hence there was no option but to define Harbin as our army’s operational aim.

Даже в сети уже есть:

https://ahkyee.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/wolff-2007-russo-japanese-war-in-global-perspective-ii.pdf