Rebuilding the Russian Military

The reputation of the russian military had obviously taken a big hit. The final autopsy report on the ruso japanese war laid a lot of justified blame at the czar's feet. So when a bill came forward to build four new dread knoughts for baltic fleet, the octoberist dominated duma indicated that they would approve the money only if the naval general staff was put under government oversight. Even though stalipin, the government and the duma all supported the measure, nicholas dug in his heels and refused to go along with it. And the czar won this fight. Stalepin was upset enough about the tzar's opposition