Frederick Kagan on Russian invasion of Georgia

at the Weekly Standard blog.

To sum up, Russian military forces at the order of Russia's president committed the following violations of international law in August 2008:

• Invading the territory of a sovereign state that had not attacked or threatened to attack Russia

• Conducting a strategic bombing campaign against both civilian and military targets in that state, with which Russia was not at war and which was not engaging in any activity remotely commensurate with such a response

• Seizing (stealing really) Georgian civilian and military hardware from Georgia proper

• Systematically demolishing Georgian military infrastructure in Georgia proper

• Failing to perform its international legal responsibilities by allowing Ossetian separatists to undertake an ethnic cleansing campaign in areas occupied by Russian forces

• Supporting Abkhazian separatists militarily in a patent land-grab

Wikipedia page on Frederick Kagan.  Needless to say, the Daily Kos crowd doesn't think much of him.