Georgia is already planning to rebuild its army, now that Russia isn’t occupying the country. For a while I was convinced that Russia was the villain in the conflict between the two countries; however, as more details come out about the war, it has become apparent that Georgia was the instigator. Russia, of course, overreacted, and it revealed the major shortcomings of the Georgian military, which offered practically no resistance to the invaders.
Therefore, Georgia claims that, besides patching together its armed forces, it needs to install much better air-defense and communications systems and to add two or more brigades to its army. Foreign critics have pointed out that, judging by Georgia’s performance in the war, it needs much more than even better equipment and more soldiers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/world/europe/03georgia.html
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