Mark Galeotti

Russia's Five-Day War (eBook, ePUB)

The invasion of Georgia, August 2008
Illustrator: Shumate, Johnny

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472850966
• Artikelnr.: 66770367

Autorenporträt

Mark Galeotti is a scholar of Russian security affairs with a career spanning academia, government service and business, a prolific author and frequent media commentator. He heads the Mayak Intelligence consultancy and is an Honorary Professor at University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies as well as holding fellowships with RUSI, the Council on Geostrategy and the Institute of International Relations Prague. He has been Head of History at Keele University, Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a Visiting Professor at Rutgers-Newark, Charles University (Prague) and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He is the author of over 25 books including A Short History of Russia (Penguin, 2021) and The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (Yale University Press, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
Background
Medvedev's War? REFORMING THE GEORGIAN ARMY
Expenditure
Contingents for multi
national forces and Western training
Rearmament
Contradictory doctrine
Additional armed personnel
Organization of infantry brigades
Georgian Army order of battle, August 2008 RUSSIAN & ALLIED FORCES
Forces in readiness and in place
South Ossetian forces
Abkhazian forces THE STRATEGY OF TENSION THE WAR: DAY ONE, AUGUST 8
The Georgian plan
Major
General Zaza Gogava
Initial bombardment
Confusion in Moscow
The advance on Tskhinvali
Street fighting
The turning
point
The Russian ground advance DAY TWO, AUGUST 9
Moscow strikes back DAYS THREE TO FIVE, AUGUST 10
12
The South Ossetian front
Russian order of battle
Continuing Russian advance
Georgian failures of command
Ceasefire
The Abkhaz front
Russian order of battle
The Kodori Gorge THE WAR IN THE AIR
The combatants
Operations and losses THE WAR AT SEA
The naval combatants
Operations and losses ANALYSIS
Summary
Georgia
Russia AFTERMATH
Russian gains
Georgians in Afghanistan FURTHER READING INDEX