13 August 2008 UTC In all those instances war was declared and both sides engaged almost all available resources to fight on and over large stretches of territory In the current instance there was no war declared the conflict is contained to the border regions of Abkhazia Ossetia and Georgia and only small portions of the Russian and Georgian armies have been engaged look at the tiny losses for example In addition that would completely ignore the centrality of the secessionist republics to the conflict would the Abkhazians and Ossetians be the Russians or the Georgians in the Russo Georgian War 15 35