NOTE: This professor is a bit eccentric, and wanted this essay in a letter format, as if I were a Command & Staff Officer assigned to the German Kaiser in early 1900s, and was to report on the emerging power of the Czar's (Russian) Imperial Army following the Russo-Japanese War of 1904. Letter Begins: Your Excellence, As we stand at the brink of war with one of our oldest adversaries, it is with the utmost urgency …showed first 75 words of 1291 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1291 total…their male population! We can win this war, but if we are to start it, we must do so as soon as possible, for the Russians are assuredly restructuring their army for the best--and they are surely following the advice of Neznamov that the Russian virtues of bravery, self-sacrifice, stolidity, and self-sufficiency must be backed by an increased army knowledge, training, and utilization of national assets (Menning 215). Dutifully yours, ----V --your man on the inside