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9781472850997 |
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Elite ; 250
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Sisaldab bibliograafiat ja registrit |
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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 |
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Vene-Gruusia sõda, 2008
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sõjalised konfliktid
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sõjad
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sõjategevus
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sõjaajalugu
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geopoliitika
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Venemaa
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Gruusia (riik)
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Lõuna-Osseetia
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Abhaasia
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2000-ndad
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Shumate, Johnny, illustreerija
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