Letter Begins:
Your Excellency,
As the ripples of the Japanese affair finally diminish I humbly submit that your Imperial Army is in dire need of restructuring--some of which has already had the foundation established but was unable to achieve full potential due to the outbreak of war.
First, let us discuss the many weaknesses that plagued the army in Asia. The single most influential, or more properly, the lack thereof, was our senior leadership. The complete indecisiveness of Kuropatkin, as first appeared in the maneuver exercise of 1902, must bear the brunt of "what went wrong"; however, this is just one of the roots that helped grow the tree of failure. …
