Russia's Five-Day War

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

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Putin; Georgia; Independence; Defense Minister; Serdyukov; South Ossetia; The Russian Army; NATO; The 2008 War; tactics; errors; cyber-warfare; military reforms; Medvedev; hybrid warfare; President; 5-day; Saakashvili; doctrine; illustrated; invasion; West; strategy; asymmetric