ABSTRACT
The Russo-Japanese War had global impact. As well as the participating nation states, the colonial admirers of Japan, the Russian revolutionaries, and the US president Theodore Roosevelt, the German observers of the war within the government and military recognized the opportunity provided by the events in East Asia. In retrospect, it seems easy to show that the German political position in Europe was weakened from 1904 to 1906. Like the military experts of other nations, the German general staff and naval specialists did not believe in a Japanese victory. The Russian steamroller would take its time to get active, but in the end the war would be a success for the Czarist ambitions in the Far East. German war plans, on the other hand, underwent particular change as a consequence of the Russian defeats. Russia's military had recovered and 1914 did not resemble 1905.
