The United States pledged on Tuesday to help train pro-Western Georgia's military in coastal defense and underscored its rejection of Russia's "occupation" of two separatist Georgian regions after a five-day war between Tbilisi and Moscow.
Coastal defense is nice, but Georgia's real defense needs are anti-tank and anti-aircraft capabilities.
Of course, we don't want the Georgians to attempt to retake the areas lost to Russia. Let Georgia focus on being a hard target but become so successful economically and politically that the lost provinces regret the day they welcomed Russians (of all people) as liberators. By then, Georgians won't want their lost provinces back.
