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    Commentary: Russia didn’t learn from the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. But Ukraine can

    by Wendell Jamieson, Los Angeles Times May 09, 2022 3 minutes

    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 closely to see how lethal new technologies lead to ghastly carnage like in Donbas and Irpin. What can we learn about how to fight future wars?

    Surprising answers arise from comparisons to an often-overlooked conflict more than a century ago, between a small nation just elbowing its way onto the world stage and a huge but faltering Western power that just happened

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