日本当时已经拥有一支精干的海军和陆军。 海军的胜利是彻底摧毁了俄国海军。

日本在 1903-1905 年日俄战争（？） 这是非白人国家首次以决定性的方式击败欧洲国家。 西奥多-罗斯福总统通过谈判达成投降协议，取得了巨大胜利。

日本当时已经拥有一支精干的海军和陆军。 海军的胜利是彻底摧毁了俄国海军。

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如果对舰队人员和海军军官的素质进行调查，俄国海军并没有什么值得炫耀的。 他们就像一个笑话，或者说是未经训练，无法掌握航海知识。 他们无法理解基本的海军术语，如左舷、右舷、船头或船尾，因为这些新兵都是来自内陆地区的俄国贫苦农民，没有开阔水域的经验！

大多数俄罗斯新兵都是来自俄罗斯内陆农场的男子，没有任何海上经验。 他们来自俄罗斯帝国各地的贫困农庄，被沙皇尼古拉的海军舰队司令归类为 "无知的白痴，无法完成最简单的任务"。 他是一位声名显赫的波兰海军上将，但他关于 1900 年代俄罗斯帝国海军的大部分故事都可以拍成一部杰瑞-刘易斯喜剧电影。 不幸的是，日俄战争也是 "波兰蠢海军 "笑话在海员中广为流传的原因。 时至今日，许多笑话都是由于俄罗斯帝国新兵的愚蠢而造成的，并不公平地指责了波兰人民。

其中一个例子是，新兵们不明白为什么在驶往远东港口城市辽宁半岛的大船上 "喝酒 "会如此危险。

事实证明，许多来自农村的新兵甚至不会游泳，更不用说在公海上漂浮了！

这就是俄国舰队的根本问题所在，这些人根本不适合在公海上作战，更不用说战术舰艇演习或指挥一艘大船，同时还要让人装载、瞄准和向移动的敌舰开火。

让一个来自陆地农场的醉酒水手驾驶大型军舰是灾难的混合物，比如指挥军舰直接撞上南非港口城市约翰内斯堡附近的沙岸，而这一站是军事需要，因为舰队需要储备船上的煤炭和食品供应。

旅途中发生的其他悲剧不胜枚举，但负责俄国舰队的波兰海军上将却因为训练和纪律方面的诸多问题而打算辞职，然后掉头就走。 不过，这是另一个故事了。

日本海军在英国爱尔兰顾问的帮助下训练有素，纪律严明。 美国西点军校的毕业生也向日本人传授了海军陆战队登陆战术，即在海岸线周围构筑工事，以及在重要码头和入境港口周围使用水雷。 他们训练有素，准备充分，因为日本人的位置靠近战场，补给线很短。 而 1900 年的俄国人两者都没有。 俄国人花了几个月的时间才把装备和补给运到远东的海军和陆军部队。 后勤工作简直就是一场噩梦。

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Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese war 1903-1905(?). First time a non-white country defeated a European nation decisively. Huge victory with President Theodore Roosevelt negotiating surrender agreement.

Japan already had a competent navy and army. Naval victory was complete destruction of Russian navy.

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The Russian Navy, if you researched about the fleets men and quality of midshipmen was nothing to brag about. They were a joke, or rather untrainable an incapable of retaining seamanship knowledge. They could not understand basic naval terms such as port, starboard, bow or stern because these recruits were poor Russian peasant farmers from land locked areas with no open water experiences!

Most of the Russian recruits were men from interior Russian farms with no, NONE, sea experience. They were from poor farming villages throughout the Russian Empire and were categorized by Czar Nicholas’s Head of Naval Fleet as “ ignorant idiots incapable of caring out the simplest tasks.” He was a Polish Admiral of high reputation but most of his tales about the 1900’s Russian Imperial Navy, makes for a Jerry Lewis Comedy Movie. Unfortunately, the Russo Japanese War was also the reason Polish Stupidity Navy jokes became so common among seamen. To this day, many of the jokes were due to the idiocy of the Russian Empire recruits and unfairly blames the people of the Polish nation.

One example was the way in which the men could not understand why “drinking“ while on those large ships heading to the Far East port city in the Liaoning Peninsula was so dangerous.

Well it turned out many of these recruits from farming villages weren’t even capable of swimming let alone floating in the open seas!

This was the basic problem with the Russian fleet, these men weren’t meant for open seas warfare, let alone tactical ship maneuvers or directing a large ship while having men load, aim, and fire on a moving enemy ship.

Then letting a drunken sailor from a land farm behind the wheel of large naval ship is a mixture for disaster, such as directing the ship right into a sand bank near the South African port city of Johannesburg, one stop which was a military necessity due to the fleet needing to stock up on the ships coal and food supplies.

The other tragedies incurred while traveling were to numerous to mention but the Polish Admiral in charge of the Russian Fleet was going to quit and then turn around because of so many problems that they had with training and discipline. But this is another story for a different thread.

The Japanese Navy were well trained and disciplined by their British Irish advisors. The Japanese were taught also Marine landing tactics by US West Point graduates on making fortifications around sea shore lines, as well as utilizing sea mines around important piers and ports of entry. They were well trained and prepared since the Japanese were located close to the battles and had short supply lines. The Russians had neither in 1900. It took months for the Russians to get equipment and supplies to the Navy as well as Army units of the Far East. The logistics were a nightmare.