This issue contains the following articles: Guerrillas Keep On Fighting, By Besik Kurtanidze, speaks about the White Legion formed in 1996, Georgian authorities encouraging the guerrillas, promising them armaments and stand-by troops. Russian peacekeepers greatly contributing to the outbreak of hostilities in Gali. APPROACHING THE WEST, The rubric covers increasing contacts between Western and Georgian public interested in security studies, and the Georgians' attitude towards Western experience of solving defence and security problems. Is Meddling Of The Military In Politics Unavoidable? By David Darchiashvili, observs the report of a visiting researcher, Ph.D. Stuart J. Kaufman, Associate Professor of the University of Kentucky, who used to study civil-military relations of the former USSR for years. Mass Media And National Security By Capt. Koba Liklikadze,the head of the MOD Press-Centre Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, reports about the seminar held on June 22-27 by The George Marshall Centre for Security Studies based in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Issue contains also Military Chronicle, including Abkhazia problems, The Army Life, The Army Building, Visits, Negotiations, Co-operation, Miscellany. The chronicle based on the information from the Georgian media. The issue followed with the Digest of the Georgian Press.

Published by: the Center for Civil-Military Relations and Security Studies; Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, Tbilisi, Georgia; Co-financed by: the European Community, TACIS Democracy Program and the European-Caucasian Economical Consulting. Editorial board: David Darchiashvili, Tamara Pataraia, Guram Dumbadze, Irakli Aladashvili.

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