From The Moscow Times:
The Russia-Georgia war last August demonstrated Moscow’s assertive stance in foreign and security policy, of which military power is one of its major instruments. But the short five-day war showed that much of Russia’s weaponry is obsolete and that its ability to conduct skillful warfare is limited. Although Russian forces were victorious against their southern neighbor, whose active military personnel numbers about 36,000, compared to Russia’s 1 million, the Georgian conflict clearly demonstrated the shortcomings in the Russian armed forces.
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My Comment: A sober assessment of Russia's conventional military forces and it's poor state of readiness and combat capability .... my contacts in Russia (since the early 1990s) have been saying the same thing as this article.
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