Russias Five Day War

Author : Mark Galeotti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472850973

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Russia's Five-Day War by Mark Galeotti Pdf

A fascinating account of Russia's Five-Day War against Georgia in 2008, notable for its strategic mistakes which prompted President Putin to undertake major military reforms. After Georgia's independence from Russia in 1991, President Saakashvili invited NATO advisers to assist in military reforms. Separatist groups in Georgia's border provinces rebelled which led to fighting in South Ossetia during August 2008. The Russian Army invaded Georgia alongside these forces, stripped it of these rebellious provinces, and garrisoned them to maintain a threat over Georgia. But despite the inevitable outcome of this hugely unbalanced conflict, it revealed serious Russian military weaknesses and incompetence, and the NATO-trained and partly Western-equipped Georgian Army put up a much more successful local resistance than Russia had expected. The conflict also demonstrated the first use of Russian cyber-warfare, and its so-called 'hybrid warfare' doctrine. Author Mark Galeotti is an expert in the field of international relations and a former Foreign Office adviser on Russian security affairs. In this book, he provides a vivid snapshot of the Russian, Georgian, Abkhazian and South Ossetian forces and gives an in-depth analysis of the conflict. Using meticulous color artwork for uniforms, insignia and equipment, rare photographs and detailed 'fact-boxes' for significant units and individuals, this book is a compelling guide to Russia's Five-Day War in Georgia.

Author : Mark Galeotti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472850997

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Russia's Five-Day War by Mark Galeotti Pdf

A fascinating account of Russia's Five-Day War against Georgia in 2008, notable for its strategic mistakes which prompted President Putin to undertake major military reforms. After Georgia's independence from Russia in 1991, President Saakashvili invited NATO advisers to assist in military reforms. Separatist groups in Georgia's border provinces rebelled which led to fighting in South Ossetia during August 2008. The Russian Army invaded Georgia alongside these forces, stripped it of these rebellious provinces, and garrisoned them to maintain a threat over Georgia. But despite the inevitable outcome of this hugely unbalanced conflict, it revealed serious Russian military weaknesses and incompetence, and the NATO-trained and partly Western-equipped Georgian Army put up a much more successful local resistance than Russia had expected. The conflict also demonstrated the first use of Russian cyber-warfare, and its so-called 'hybrid warfare' doctrine. Author Mark Galeotti is an expert in the field of international relations and a former Foreign Office adviser on Russian security affairs. In this book, he provides a vivid snapshot of the Russian, Georgian, Abkhazian and South Ossetian forces and gives an in-depth analysis of the conflict. Using meticulous color artwork for uniforms, insignia and equipment, rare photographs and detailed 'fact-boxes' for significant units and individuals, this book is a compelling guide to Russia's Five-Day War in Georgia.

Author : Ariel Cohen,Robert E. Hamilton
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584874911

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The Russian Military and the Georgia War by Ariel Cohen,Robert E. Hamilton Pdf

In this monograph, the authors state that Russia planned the war against Georgia in August 2008 aiming for the annexation of Abkhazia, weakening the Saakashvili regime, and prevention of NATO enlargement. According to them, while Russia won the campaign, it also exposed its own military as badly needing reform. The war also demonstrated weaknesses of the NATO and the European Union security systems.

Author : Svante E. Cornell,S. Frederick Starr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317456520

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The Guns of August 2008 by Svante E. Cornell,S. Frederick Starr Pdf

In the summer of 2008, a conflict that appeared to have begun in the breakaway Georgian territory of South Ossetia rapidly escalated to become the most significant crisis in European security in a decade. The implications of the Russian-Georgian war will be understood differently depending on one's narrative of what transpired and perspective on the broader context. This book is designed to present the facts about the events of August 2008 along with comprehensive coverage of the background to those events. It brings together a wealth of expertise on the South Caucasus and Russian foreign policy, with contributions by Russian, Georgian, European, and American experts on the region.

Author : Ruslan Pukhov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 5990232012

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The Tanks of August by Ruslan Pukhov Pdf

The publication of this book coincides with the second anniversary of the armed conflict between Russia and Georgia on August 8-12, 2008, now dubbed the Five Day War. The conflict was triggered by Georgia's ambitious and nationalistic president, Mikhail Saakashvili, who attempted a "blitzkrieg" to conquer the former Georgian autonomy of South Ossetia, which had proclaimed independence. That attempt led to a military intervention by Russia, which acted as the guarantor of peace in the region, and the first "official war" between Russia and one of the former Soviet republics. This work contains six essays, from a primarily Russian perspective, which provide an in-depth analysis of the political, social, economic, and military context for and causes of the war, the nature of wartime military operations, the human and material costs of the brief struggle, and the war's likely implications for the future.

Author : Mark Galeotti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472833457

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Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine by Mark Galeotti Pdf

Explaining and illustrating the immediate background to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, this book investigates the Ukrainian and Russian regular and irregular forces which have been fighting in the Donbas region since 2014. In February 2014, street protests in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities led to the ousting of the Russian-backed President Yanukovych. Simultaneously, Russia carried out an almost-bloodless seizure of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. Ukraine's 'Euromaidan Revolution' would see many changes to the country's constitution, and a turn towards the West for civic assistance and military training. Meanwhile, a violent reaction in the mainly Russian-speaking south-eastern industrial Donbas region led to a local armed counter-revolution, backed by Russia from April 2014. This conflict became an essential example of Russia's policy of so-called 'hybrid warfare', which pursues its strategic aims by a blend of propaganda and misinformation with the clandestine deployment of Special Forces and regular troops, alongside 'deniable' proxies and mercenaries. Meanwhile, Ukraine's efforts to reform its government culminated in the landslide election of President Zelensky in April 2019. Using his extensive contacts in both Russia and Ukraine, Prof Mark Galeotti presents a thorough and intriguing primer on all the forces involved in the conflict up to 2018. Supported by orders-of-battle, colour photos and specially commissioned artwork, his book also analyses the background and the stuttering progress of the war, and addresses the Russian military capabilities which are today being tested in all-out battle.

Author : Alexandros Fox Boufesis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1608880346

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The Russia-Georgia War by Alexandros Fox Boufesis Pdf

This essay as part of the Nimble Books series "The Decisive Battles of the 21st century" describes the battles carried out in August 2008 around South Ossetia and Abkhazia, after Georgia unleashed an attack upon them. The foreword is by a renowned professor of Geopolitics of the Hellenic Military Academy, Dr Constantinos Grivas. The Russians fought on the side of the breakaway Republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in a war, which is also known as "The Five Day War." There is an extensive analysis on the diplomatic prelude occurring prior to the beginning of the hostilities, debating the causes that led Georgia to attack the breakaways and Russia to defend them. The prelude covers deep historical topics since the fall of the Soviet Union and the subsequent rise of Gamsakhurdia, the nationalist Georgian leader, Eduard Shevardnadze, whose toppling by the Rose Revolution brought Mikhail Saakashvili to power. Military operations are described and analyzed thoroughly starting from the skirmishes between Georgians and Ossetians and culminating with the war's most decisive battle, the battle of Tskhinvali. The essay sheds light on the new Russian military doctrine and the reforms, which took place in the Russian Army, following the Five Day War, in all sectors including the Army, VDV troops, the Air Force and the Navy. Finally, an extensive analysis is carried out both in the framework of geoeconomics and that of international relations and geopolitics, around Russia's future diplomatic ties with the EU and the US, separately, including the recent events in the US and European Economies, which have led to the manifestation of a European power centralized around Germany. The battle of Tskhinvali may well have settled the fate of the Caucasus for the 21st century, and foreshadowed the campaigns in Crimea, Ukraine, and beyond.

Author : Charles Blandy,Conflict Studies Research Centre (Great Britain),Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. Advanced Research and Assessment Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : 1905962630

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Provocation, Deception, Entrapment by Charles Blandy,Conflict Studies Research Centre (Great Britain),Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. Advanced Research and Assessment Group Pdf

Author : Ariel Cohen,Robert Hamilton,Strategic Institute
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 147768641X

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The Russian Military and the Georgia War: Lessons and Implications by Ariel Cohen,Robert Hamilton,Strategic Institute Pdf

In August 2008, the armed conflict between Russia and Georgia broke out on the territory of Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The Russian-planned military campaign lasted 5 days until the parties reached a preliminary ceasefire agreement on August 12. The European Union (EU), led by the French presidency, mediated the ceasefire. After signing the agreement, Russia pulled most of its troops out of uncontested Georgian territories, but established buffer zones around Abkhazia and South Ossetia. On August 26, 2008, Russia recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, making them a part of what President Dmitry Medvedev called Moscow's "zone of privileged interests," and since then deploying five military bases on occupied Georgian territory. In their monograph, Dr. Ariel Cohen and Colonel Robert Hamilton show how Russia won the war against Georgia by analyzing the goals of war, which include the annexation of Abkhazia, the weakening or toppling the Saakashvili regime, and the prevention of NATO enlargement in the Caucasus. The war demonstrated that Russia's military is in need of significant reforms and it indicated which of those reforms are currently being implemented. Finally, the war highlighted weaknesses of the NATO and EU security system as it pertains to Eastern Europe and specifically to the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Author : René De La Pedraja
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476634494

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The Russian Military Resurgence by René De La Pedraja Pdf

The transition from the Soviet to the post–1991 Russian military is a fascinating story of decline and reinvention. The Soviet army suffered a slow demise, dissolving in 2000 and only gradually reforming based on radically different principles. The First Chechnya War (1994–1996) was the lowest point for the Soviet military but the Second Chechnya War (1999–2004) saw the initial stirrings of the new Russian army. The Five Day War with Georgia in August 2008 was its first major success and marked Russia’s return to world power status. Lively accounts and maps describe the actions of these wars, along with the Crimea operation of 2014, the separatist struggles in eastern Ukraine and the ongoing Russian intervention in Syria.

Author : Charles King
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195177756

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The Ghost of Freedom by Charles King Pdf

" ... The first general history of the modern Caucasus, stretching from the beginning of Russian imperial expansion up to rise of new countries after the Soviet Union's collapse."--Cover.

Author : Richard Shirreff
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781681441375

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War with Russia by Richard Shirreff Pdf

The rapid rise in Russia's power over the course of the last ten years has been matched by a stunning lack of international diplomacy on the part of its president, Vladimir Putin. One consequence of this, when combined with Europe's rapidly shifting geopolitics, is that the West is on a possible path toward nuclear war. Former deputy commander of NATO General Sir Richard Shirreff speaks out about this very real peril in this call to arms, a novel that is a barely disguised version of the truth. In chilling prose, it warns allied powers and the world at large that we risk catastrophic nuclear conflict if we fail to contain Russia's increasingly hostile actions. In a detailed plotline that draws upon Shirreff's years of experience in tactical military strategy, Shirreff lays out the most probable course of action Russia will take to expand its influence, predicting that it will begin with an invasion of the Baltic states. And with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump recently declaring that he might not come to the aid of these NATO member nations were he to become president, the threat of an all-consuming global conflict is clearer than ever. This critical, chilling fictional look at our current geopolitical landscape, written by a top NATO commander, is both timely and necessary-a must-read for any fan of realistic military thrillers as well as all concerned citizens.

Author : Mark Galeotti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472858252

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Russia’s Wars in Chechnya by Mark Galeotti Pdf

Written by a leading expert on modern Russia, this is an illustrated introduction to the bitter campaigns in Chechnya. In this new edition of his popular 2014 work, Mark Galeotti traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian advance through to urban battles such as Grozny, and the prolonged guerrilla warfare in the mountainous regions. Bringing the book up to date, including a revised introduction and new content on the Kadyrovtsy's role in Russia's other conflicts, Galeotti assesses how the wars have torn apart the fabric of Chechen society and their impact on Russia itself. Featuring full-colour maps and 50 new images, and drawing upon a wide range of sources, this succinct account explains the origins, history and consequences of Russia's wars in Chechnya, shedding new light on the history – and prospects – of the troubled region.

Author : E. Souleimanov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137280237

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Understanding Ethnopolitical Conflict by E. Souleimanov Pdf

This book critically evaluates the growing body of theoretical literature on ethnic conflict and civil war, using empirical data from three major South Caucasian conflicts, evaluating the relative strengths and weaknesses of the available methodological approaches.

Author : Artur Tiganik,Army War College (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Aggression (International law)
ISBN : OCLC:775008468

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Lessons for Estonia from the Georgia-Russia Five Days War by Artur Tiganik,Army War College (U.S.) Pdf

The Georgia-Russia Five Days War has become a large-scale, high-profile test of the capability of the armed forces of Georgia and the country as a whole. Likewise, the August war has become sort of a test of the durability of international relations, and in my opinion has proved that small countries like Estonia and Georgia cannot fully relay on the assistance of a "great friend". Could the same scenario be repeated in Estonia? Do we have enough security warranty from NATO and the EU? As of today, I see some potential that in the future problems very similar to this will arise, and in order to avoid them we have to identify and learn lessons from this war for Estonia. This study will briefly review the Georgian geopolitical situation and identify similarities with the situation in Estonia. In order to explain the geopolitical situation in the post Soviet space, I will assert the growing interest of Russia to become a great power. Next, the study examines and compares the defense forces of both countries. Third, it analyzes how Estonian membership in NATO and the EU can influence relations with Russia. And finally, I will try to answer the question: Does Estonia have a sufficient security warranty?