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Contents 6
Notes on Contributors 8
Introduction: the global significance of a small war 14
A new cold war? 16
The scope of this volume 19
Notes 25
Bibliography 27
The roots of Russian conduct 29
Introduction 29
Foreign policy and the national interest 31
Structural factors: the shifting Eurasian balance of power 33
Geo-economic factors: in search of energy security 36
Political factors: different systems, democracy promotion, ethnicity and war 39
Cultural and perceptual factors: Russia as empire? 42
Re-engaging Russia: new institutions for new realities 45
Conclusions 48
Acknowledgements 49
Notes 49
Bibliography 54
Russia as a great power 58
The rise of Russia as a great power 59
The expansion of Russia’s land empire and the significance of the Caucasus 64
The Soviet era: from incomplete great power to incomplete superpower 68
Putin and the redefinition of Russian power 73
Conclusion 77
Notes 78
Bibliography 82
From controlling military information to controlling society: the political interests involved in the transformation of the military media under Putin 86
The decline of the military media network 87
The military media on the way to disappearing 88
Abandonment of Soviet practices and the rise of independent information sources 88
Chechnya: a double defeat, both in tactics and in the media 89
The implementation of a crisis management approach 90
Kavkaz - a closed system of information for the troops 90
The Russian Information Center 92
From revamping a communications network to creating a military media 93
The doctrinaire bases for reform 95
The reform of the information department of the armed forces 97
The establishment of a military media proper 97
Increasing military control over the means of communication 98
Controlling information sent to the regions and circulating within them 99
The revival of Soviet practices: embedding representatives of the army and power institutions within the media 100
Neutralization of criticism detrimental to the army’s reputation and interference with information coming from the civilian sector 100
Notes 103
Bibliography 107
Use of force and civil-military relations in Russia: an automated content analysis 112
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail? 113
Hypotheses 116
Issue salience 116
Use of force 118
Research design 119
Bag-of-words analysis 120
Unsupervised topic models 120
Supervised document classification: an ensemble approach 122
Individual classifiers 124
The ensemble 126
Uncertainty 127
Summary 127
The Russian public debate: empirical findings 129
Realpolitik and interventionism 129
Conservatism and activism 132
Agreement and disagreement 134
Conclusions 136
Acknowledgements 137
Notes 139
Bibliography 144
Pipeline politics: Georgia and energy security 150
Introduction 150
Georgia and European energy security 152
Pipeline politics 155
The pipelines and the war 159
New pipeline routes 160
Energising Russian strategy 163
Concluding remarks 165
Disclaimer 167
Notes 167
Bibliography 173
The fatal flaw: the media and the Russian invasion of Georgia 176
The media war 176
Patriotism: somebody is shooting, somebody is writing about it 185
What it leads to 190
Reporters at war: ‘If we hadn’t run, we all would have been alive’ 193
The cyber war 194
The PR war: fighting not with each other but for being recognized as the rightful side by the international community 196
Blogging as free information space… well, at least partly 198
Flashback 202
‘A free press is the major myth created by Georgia the West has believed in’ 206
Notes 206
Bibliography 212
National narratives and new politics of memory in Georgia 213
Lieux de mémoire or new politics of memory 215
Realms of memory and locus of philosopher: public intellectual Merab Mamardashvili 221
Notes 222
Bibliography 224
Russia’s war in Georgia: lessons and consequences 226
Russia’s dilemma in a nutshell 227
Russian military strategy in the Five-Day War 229
The Five-Day War and Russia’s military capability 230
Planning and implementation of the operation 230
Command and control 234
Air defence and air support 235
Military equipment 237
Conduct and professionalism of Russian forces 239
Implications for future Russian military strategy 240
The Russian military in domestic politics 243
Russian military power in the international arena 246
Acknowledgements 248
Notes 248
Bibliography 253
America and the Russo-Georgian War 260
US policy 272
The US response 279
Conclusion 287
Notes 287
Bibliography 297
The bear came through the tunnel: an analysis of Georgian planning and operations in the Russo-Georgian War and implications for U.S. policy 304
The last supra 307
From Pankisi to Wasit - the U.S. training and equipping effort in Georgia 308
The road to war 311
The Georgian plan 313
The campaign 318
4th Brigade’s fight 318
The main effort 326
The command post 326
Other Georgian units 326
Russian forces 329
Lessons learned 331
Planning 331
Operations 333
U.S. lessons learned and way ahead 337
Notes 340
Bibliography 343
Index 345