Sarah Paine

how they overturn the balance of power.

And it has to do with pegging the culminating point of victory in the Russo-Japanese War.

And now for a commercial break, I'm going to give you some terminology, which are culminating point of attack, culminating point of victory.

They're different.

Culminating point of attack is an operational term.

If you do not reach your culminating point of attack,

it means you could have gone further.

And it applies, the culminating point of attack applies to a single battle or a set of battles, which would be called a campaign.

So if you don't go far enough in your battle, you could have taken more territory, whatever it was you were after, if you go too far.

So imagine you're going...

deep into whatever territory it is, your lines are ever more extended.

Your enemy's lines are probably being shortened.

Your supply problems are getting worse.

Theirs might be getting better.

If you go way too far, your enemy will launch a counterattack that will send you much further backwards than if you'd been a little more cautious about how far you went.

So that's an operational term.

The strategic term is culminating point of victory and it concerns the objective for which the war was fought.

Japan's fighting this war in order to protect its sovereignty.

They come a great power to do that.

If you don't go far enough and if you don't reach your culminating point, you could have gotten greater winnings.