Georgia’s Military Has Long Way to Go in Modernization, U.S. Report Finds - NYTimes.com

Original: Georgia's Military Has Long Way to Go in Modernization, U.S. Report Finds - NYTimes.com

Georgia's Military Has Long Way to Go in Modernization, U.S. Report Finds - NYTimes.com: "The Georgian military, which was routed in August during a brief war with Russia, suffers from widespread mismanagement and unqualified leadership, and is in need of extensive reforms to become a modern fighting force, according to a classified Pentagon assessment conducted this fall."

After years of provocations by Georgia and Russia alike, Georgia launched an attack in August against the separatist enclave of South Ossetia. The attack was stymied by a large-scale Russian invasion and the defeat of the Georgian Army on its home soil.

...Eduard Kokoity, the n Washington said that the assessment had found significant shortcomings, and that Georgia and its Western supporters would have to decide how to proceed.

"We did an honest job," the officials said. "And we said to them, 'You should know you need to make some changes if you want to have a professional military force.' "