Sarah Paine

Also, there's split command in the Russo-Japanese War.

So there's General Kurapatkin, who is the professional, who's actually...

had fought in the Ottomans, but those are colonial wars, and he'd won some of those.

He's a professional.

But then Admiral Alexeyev, who's the illegitimate son of, I can't remember which czar, and a favorite uncle, I believe, of Nicholas II, he's out there, and no one knows who's actually in command except the royal favorite is probably the better bet.

And so Kurapotkin...

wants to not engage the Japanese until they're way inland because he wants to extend their lines and then clobber them.

And all these aristocrats don't know what they're talking about.

So, no, no, no, no, no, we're not going to let these racial inferiors do whatever.

We're going to take them on immediately.

Well, okay.

Try that.

Kirk Potkin's strategy probably would have worked.

Just bring them on inland and let them enjoy it.

Like Napoleon Bonaparte.

You want to get to Moscow?

Have at it.

Then try winter in Moscow.

Well, I'm going to give you a tangential answer.

Then you tell me what I'm missing.