Warfare and Diplomacy in the News: War in the Caucasus & Umarov's Emirate
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....