<span>An ideal national security policy might balance the need for good relations with other countries against the need to take punitive or pre-emptive actions when necessary. This may prove difficult to achieve in reality because people of different nations may disagree on which policies are appropriate.</span>
The Japanese victory over Russian forces had shown the peoples of the Orient that Colonial Imperialists could be defeated and the Asian peoples could persevere in a war against the Occident.The Japanese gained renown that carried over into WW 2.
I’m pretty sure it was Benjamin Franklin.
It was a prime spot, near teh water, and it connects Egypt and Mesopotamia
