3 days Ago By Danny Orbach
In military history, there are many examples of military plans that looked logical on paper, but failed and were doomed to oblivion because they could not be implemented politically. In the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), the Russian field commander Aleksey Kuropatkin planned to draw the Japanese deep into Russian territory, stretch out their supply lines and then crush them with a counterattack when they were weak, starving and exhausted. Theoretically, there was nothing that could have saved the Japanese from this simple, clever and brutal plan.
But politically, the plan was stillborn..
