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The roots were present: 1. Germany goaded Russia (the Kaiser was a cousin to the Tsar) into war with Japan in order to eliminate Russia as a competitor in Europe. 2. Britain took lessons learned from the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905 and embedded those lessons into the new battleship HMS Dreadnaught launched in 1906. It would be these DREADNAUGHTS which would fight in WW1. 3. European military officers witnessed the effects of the machine gun in the Russo-Japanese War. Then went on to field these very same weapons in WW1. Bottom line: The Russo-Japanese War of 1904 could be looked upon as a practice game for the play-off game to occur in 1914.

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