Expeditionary Warfare - Japanese Piracy Warfare

Japanese Piracy Warfare

Expeditionary warfare in Asia begun very much in the same way it had in the Mediterranean with short-term raids by Japanese pirates. Because the Wokou were weakly resisted by the Ming Dynasty, the raiding eventually developed into fully-fledged expeditionary warfare with the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598).

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