Abstract
There are many transformations in developing and understanding military strategy, and new realities have delivered fresh trends in analyzing, planning, performing, and reviewing combat operations. The transformation in military strategic thoughts is affiliated with the new conception of the Fourth Generation Warfare, adopted at the turn of 20th and the 21st centuries. According to some academic conceptualizations, Fourth Generation Warfare is defined as military conflicts that involve the following elements: high technology, terrorism, a non-national or transitional base, a direct attack on enemy's culture, highly sophisticated psychological warfare especially through manipulation of the media, deliver of a high-intensity, short duration attack and creating a sense of vulnerability, debilitation, and abasement in the enemy.
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For the time being, security is a concern of global dimensions determined by the Globalization phenomenon and acceleration of integration processes. Due to massive effect of threats and risks for global politics, a new definition of global security emerged in vocabularies of international relations and securirty studies. According to them, Global Security -is a security model that is implemented by the international and intergovernmental organizations and based on principles of international law principles and norms and backed on this background, the states, as international political actors, are oblidged to comply with these ones, by keeping sovereignty untouchable and in case of its of violation take offshot (Magradze & Maisaia, 2017, 14). Meanwile, the global threat may emanate not only from states, but also from such subjects yet to be identified as international actors. Even international law is useless in the eradication of those like “DAESH” and even the COVID-19 virus. Such precedents need more precise and deliberate approaches and analysis.
The geopolitical realities of post-Cold War period regional security agendas have focused precious attention to the Caucasus region. The Caucasus regional security environment draws concrete interests from by the global powers competing for formulating their favorite current world order. It is clear why the Caucasus region attracts the interests from such global powers such as the USA, China’s People Republic (CPR) and the Russian Federation. However, bipolar engagement is a keen reference of implications arranged by realities of a new Cold War - a staggering struggle of national interests between Russia and the USA. The Americans increased engagement into regional security affairs due to geopolitical consequences of the 9/11 tragedy. They became decisively engaged with a “Global War against Terrorism” and shifted some attention toward deterring Russia’s aggressiveness to the area. The Russian incumbent authority has been trying to maintain its military, political and economic presence in the independent states of the Caucasus region and these states are trapped between zones and geopolitical trajectories of colluding completing geopolitical interests - that of new cold war global power (Hough et al., 2015, 351). The Caucasus region is recognized with non-specific labels such as “Geostrategic Gateway” and “Rim of Instability” determined by the intense cases of military conflicts: latent vs. open. The confrontation dilemma is not easy to defuse and transform into peaceful resilience. Promoting dialogue and coopoeration remains a sole option to transform the Caucasus region from a confrontation area into peaceful island as it is perceived by the geopolitical concept “Caucasus Geostrata” -as a geo-strata, the Caucasus is the region where geopolitical projects are either synchronized or clash. this is one of the leading theory of modern Georgian geopolitical school (Maisaia, 2020, 167).