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Conflict in the Caucasus region has been a major diplomatic and political issue abroad and in the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite republics in 1991. Rebel Chechens in the First Chechen War December 1994-May 1996 No other former Soviet region besides  Yugoslavia and its republics  perhaps, has experienced as much bloodshed, sectarian revolt, and conflict as the Caucasus . To date the Russian Federation has fought in 5 major conflicts in Caucasus: The First Chechen War 1994-1996, the Second Chechen War from 1999-2009 and the ongoing insurgency in Chechnya, conflicts against Georgia and the breakaway Abkhazia state, and the anti-insurgency campaign against Islamists which continue to this day. Russian military in the Caucasus. Similiar perhaps to those "advisors" sent by the Russian Federation to Syria recently  as of March 2012. The campaigns in the Caucasus especially against the Islamist factions of Doku Umarov (b....

In China’s long history the massive size of its empire both past and present creates many geographical, cultural, and chronological problems when dealing with the study of Chinese warfare in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This issue is prevalent in our Western understanding of China after the Revolution of 1911 which succeeded in the overthrow of the the Qing Empire. China ’s first attempt at a more republican form of government was come to be a fragile coalition of Warlords who in 1912 signed a series of treaties and alliances to form the Beiyang government in what is today  Beijing, China . The Beiyang Star, a political and military symbol of the  5 major regions (Warlord cliques) of China under Beiyang Rule Two of the smaller warlord cliques in the earliest era, Kuomintang (Nationalist dominated, but nominally a Marxist-Leninist party as well) and the independent Chinese Communist Party, later struggled for control over all of China after 1928 and beyond, only interrupt...