Issue 4279. Last Updated: 11/22/2009

Conflict Exposes Obsolete Hardware

By Simon Saradzhyan
The brief but intensive armed conflict in South Ossetia has signaled Russia's willingness and ability to fight and win conflicts beyond its borders after years of focusing its war machine on nuclear deterrence and the suppression of internal security threats.

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