Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
The Georgian government, apparently.

The Georgians have displayed a good deal of operational incompetence as it seems. There's only one road (actually partially a tunnel!) between Russia and SO - they should have taken that in an air assault and blocked it (if not blown up altogether).
The mountain passes are impassable in winter - the Georgian attack in summer.

The initial attack doesn't seem to have won much terrain - apparently only a few kilometres at most before the Russian advance guard of few battalions arrived .

Well, #### happens if you begin a war with a 1:100 inferior army that's incompetent.

The Russians didn't produce flawless photos of their columns either. Poor camouflage, poor march organization, perfect targets for air/arty, irregular uniforms, riding on top of APCs...


I've observed discussions about this where people refrained about an oh-so-good U.S.-trained Georgian brigade.
Well, maybe we should create a thread to identify the armies that were trained by the U.S. military and didn't afterward suck asap?
I've got difficulties to remember any.
For so eloquently pointing out the various reasons that this particular conflict and its origins seem only to fit the requirements of one of the participants.

To assume that the Georgians or their trainers didn't realize what you say is true might be asking a little much


It does however help to make it quite evident why now would have been a good time by Russian terms. And why preemption may have seemed acceptable.

Just another way of looking at it