0:01 [applause] It's such a pleasure to be here with you all. I'm going to talk about war termination today. Good idea, right? End these things. Turns out it's really easy to get into wars. It's awfully difficult to get out of them. And it is even more difficult to get out of them what you wished you could have gotten out of them. So, I'm going to start by talking about the Russo-Japanese war, which from the Japanese point of view is pretty much model war termination. Why? Let's do this math on Russia and China back in
0:34 the day. Russia was a multiple of these quantifiable measures over Japan by territory, population, industrial base, resource endowment, size of army, size of navy. Russia and most of those things is a multiple of Japan. And you got to ask yourself, well, how did Japan win? Good question. And I'll talk about it. All right. So, here is my plan. I'm going to start about talking about how the Russo-Japanese war ended. Use it as a model, but then I'm going to talk
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