He previously worked as a senior reporter for the independent Georgian newspaper ‘Sakartvelo," where he covered the Georgian-Abkhazian war (1992-93) and the Georgian- Russian war (2008). He also worked as an embedded journalist with KFOR in Kosovo 1999 and with the U.S.-led Coalition Operation in Iraq. Liklikadze has published numerous articles and analytical pieces on military and national security issues in the Caucasus region for the Jamestown Foundation and the Institute For War and Peace Reporting.