Latest updates in the war in Georgia: Russia is expanding the scope of its conflict, striking the capital and pushing west into Abkhazia. Map from the Financial Times and Daily Mail, respectively:
Worth reading: Full scale invasion reported by some media sources; both sides are playing the media war as Russia makes reports of Georgian attrocities; Reuters report on what options the US really has in Georgia; FT also reports that Moscow’s UN envoy continues to assert that Russia is not intent on overthrowing the Georgian government.
Sidenote: Consider how Wikipedia is changing how we title wars in the 21st century. The title of “The Great War” took months to evolve, and only became “World War I” in the 1950s. At present, the conflict in Georgia is titled 2008 South Ossetia War, but as the war expands we can expect to see this name changed.
About Curzon
Lord George Nathaniel Curzon (1859 - 1925) entered the British House of Commons as a Conservative MP in 1886, where he served as undersecretary of India and Foreign Affairs. He was appointed Viceroy of India at the turn of the 20th century where he delineated the North West Frontier Province,
ordered a military expedition to Tibet, and unsuccessfully tried to partition the province of Bengal during his six-year tenure. Curzon served as Leader of the House of Lords in Prime Minister Lloyd George's War Cabinet and became Foreign Secretary in January 1919, where his most famous act was
the drawing of the Curzon Line between a new Polish state and Russia. His publications include
Russia in Central Asia (1889) and
Persia and the Persian Question (1892).
In real life, "Curzon" is a US citizen from the East Coast who has been a financial analyst, freelance translator, and university professor; he is currently on assignment in Tokyo.
