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Dr. Sarah Paine on Dwarkesh Patel: Why Japan Modernized Fast

Through the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars fought within a decade; Meiji Japan turned a war indemnity into the first non-western modern military power.

Sarah PaineguestDwarkesh Patelhost
Jul 25, 20251h 56mWatch on YouTube ↗

CHAPTERS

  1. 0:00 – 15:26

    Japan's Meiji reforms

  2. 15:26 – 30:42

    Trans-Siberian railway & Japan's 3-year window for empire

  3. 30:42 – 49:22

    The most important battle in the Russo-Japanese war

  4. 49:22 – 1:00:15

    China's implosion: imperialism, civil wars, and opium

  5. 1:00:15 – 1:15:10

    Was Russia on track to dominate Asia?

  6. 1:15:10 – 1:34:47

    Pearl Harbor (1941) vs surprise attack of Port Arthur (1904)

  7. 1:34:47 – 1:47:40

    Why big countries still lose wars

  8. 1:47:40 – 1:56:21

    Grand strategy for small countries

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