RUSSIA’S MILITARY AGGRESSION AND STRIKE IN GEORGIA ON AUGUST 2008: LESSONS LEARNED – GEOSTRATEGIC ANALYSIS
RUSSIA’S MILITARY AGGRESSION AND STRIKE IN GEORGIA ON AUGUST 2008: LESSONS LEARNED – GEOSTRATEGIC ANALYSIS

Author(s): Vakhtang MAISAIA
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Economy
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: “Hard” power; “lessons learned”; Georgia; Ukraine; foreign policy; August war.
Summary/Abstract: Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine launched by the Russian Federation leadership aiming at on full occupation and regime change orientation on its mind (the mission so far has been failed), from military studies analyze perspective became omnipotent review and scrutiny the war wedged by the Russia’s current leadership against sovereign Georgia on 8 August in 2008. The geostrategic analyze is to be very relevant and timely precise one because of reconsidering why the Russia dared to attack Ukraine by exploiting so-called “Hard Power” and whether it was supposed to be avoid the war scenario taken into consideration Georgia’s war “lessons learned”. In conjunction with tense geopolitical situation in Ukraine, Georgia is being pulled out of the daily political agenda.This is a case of appeasement foreign policy incursion stipulated by the incumbent ruling party of Georgia “The Georgian Dream Party” who controls the government and parliament. Even recently, having adopted the resolution on situation in Ukraine, the ruling party majority fraction has not mentioned in the document the phrase “The Russian Federation”. Despite of the matter, Georgia and Ukraine are considered in common geopolitical “basket” from Euro-Atlantic and European integration policy perspectives. According to the Constitution of Georgia adopted in 2020, in accordance to Article 78 directly stipulated Georgia irreversibility stance toward integration policy adherence in the NATO and EU structures. Hence, it means that the incumbent Russian Federation authority set up their own so-called“red lines” in properly promulgated two documents (so-called “Security Treaty Drafts” for USA and NATOoriginated by the Kremlin administration in January 2022) triggered both Georgia and Ukraine as its own “special zones of influence” and pointed out in its geostrategic plans for encroachment in case of necessity

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