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....and not the one with all the peaches and bad football.
So much for the summer break from history - if there was ever such a thing.
Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, launched a surprise military offensive to retake South Ossetia and reportedly killed hundreds of people, triggering a ferocious counterattack from Russia that threatened to plunge the region into full-scale war.Tough nut.Moscow, which has close ties to the separatists, sent a column of tanks rolling into South Ossetia and reportedly attacked two Georgian air bases as it moved to assert itself as the dominant regional power.
What do babies and the MilBlog Conference have in common?
Marc Lynch discusses the provincial elections that got delayed in Iraq.