WAR  battle     This was not a battle Russia had won before hand THis was a murder commited by georgia just to spite the prorussian rebels in Ossetia and Abkahzia    The Georgians knew they would lose Ossetia and Abkazia  Georgia knew that NATO membership wouldnt entitle them to  keep the two areas they knew that NATO membership wouldnt keep Russian troops away    They  knew from the start they were not going to reclaim Osssetia for long They knew if they struck in Abkazia  they would be wiped out in a few minutes they had no targets in reach So thats why they chose Ossetia This is not the battle for ossetia This was  simply murder of ossetians for the sake of murdering   Either georgia wanted to  start WW III OR they just wanted to murder   the seperatists out of a sick sort of pride out of a derranged sense of right and wrong That is it that is what this killing was about  There was no war The russians merely came in as a police action as if following the script the Georgians had written  that is there was no battle that Goergia can win this was purely sacrifice of its own merely to murder civilians call it murder or genocide please