A decisive battle was not one fixed plan

The discussion connects decisive-battle thinking to the Russo-Japanese War, where Japanese success was not confined to Tsushima alone. Port Arthur and Tsushima both showed how destruction of an enemy fleet could create bargaining power. The doctrine should not be treated as mechanically uniform because successive senior officers brought different priorities to it. The changing course of the Pacific War also kept altering which interpretation remained possible, so Kantai Kessen was a strategic family of ideas rather than one immutable battle script.