The NY Times reported on it on Nov. 7, saying:
“Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression.
Instead, the accounts suggest that Georgia’s inexperienced military attacked the isolated separatist capital of Tskhinvali on Aug. 7 with indiscriminate artillery and rocket fire, exposing civilians, Russian peacekeepers and unarmed monitors to harm.”
Which becomes all the more interesting when you read about American troops training and equipping Georgian troops since at least 1992 and as recent as 2008.
It is also interesting to note that Georgia has 2000 troops in Iraq, which is the 3rd most, behind US and GB.