Month-long U.S. exercise with strategic ally Georgia rattles Moscow

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Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com

Some 350 U.S. Marines from the USMC Black Sea Rotational Forces and several hundred Georgian Army troops from the country’s 23rd Battalion of the II Infantry Brigade took part in a month-long military exercise codenamed “Agile Spirit 2013″ in the former Soviet republic by the Black Sea that ended last week.

U.S. and Georgian soldiers take part in Agile Spirit 2013 at the military base of Vaziani, outside Tbilisi, Georgia on March 29. /EPA
U.S. and Georgian soldiers take part in Agile Spirit 2013 at the military base of Vaziani, outside Tbilisi, Georgia on March 29. /EPA

Georgia has become a staunch U.S. ally in the region, and Russia does not like it.

In 2008, Moscow instigated a separatist movement in Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions.

In South Ossetia, Russia encouraged the Russian-speaking population to split, which triggered an all-out war between the Moscow-backed South Ossetia separatists and the Georgia Army.

The war ended badly for Georgia because of Russia’s heavy direct military involvement in the conflict.

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