Report from Tbilisi

but I’m not sure how long many Georgians would be willing to live like hunted bandits in the South Caucuses

Perhaps you're right. But I still think it'd give the Russians some pause to know they were going to invade a nation with 500,000 trained riflemen who would, at least initially, give the Cossacks and Chechens a very, very bloody nose.

Yamamoto's response to the question of if he was going to invade America is instructive, although not very applicable to this situation.

"Of course not. There would be a scoped rifle behind every blade of grass."

It's also no longer 1950. The Georgians wouldn't be alone in this. The Ukrainians and the Poles know they're next if they don't stand up this time.

Even the Belarussians aren't all that enthusiastic about supporting their Russian brothers.

Personally I think we could bring this thing to a halt if Western banks just froze the assets of the Russian kleptocracy until Putin pulled his troops out. That's what this is really about.

The oil and the money that flows to the crooks who 'own' those companies.

There's not much time for the Georgian government to instill the concept of Total Resistance into the Georgian people. I also recommend that long term, if the Georgians have a 'long term that is, practice of turning Georgia into a nation of riflemen along the lines of the Swiss Schutzenfest Every Georgian home should also have a rifle and a quantity of ammunition as a matter of law. In very short order Georgia, while it could be invaded, would never be conquered.

Lurker, thank you for caring about the Georgian people enough to suggest this. I am pinging a Georgian to read your post.

There's not much time for the Georgian government to instill the concept of Total Resistance into the Georgian people.

The link you gave to Total Resistance takes me to an Amazon.com error page, which I suspect is a reference to the guerilla warfare manual written by Swiss army Major Hans von Dach.

But of at least equal interest might be an English-language translation of the sequal effort to Von Dach's primer on how to fight back, titled Der Totale Widerstand II, Chemische Kampfstoffe [Total Resistance II: Chemical Weapons]), offering instruction about "Chemische Kampfstoffe für Widerstandskämpfer. Herstellung unter einer Besatzungsmacht mit einfachsten Mitteln im Küchenlabor" (Chemical weapons for resistance fighters. Production during occupation with the simplest of means in a kitchen laboratory).

which I suspect is a reference to the guerilla warfare manual written by Swiss army Major Hans von Dach

It was indeed. No home should be without that book. I didn't know he'd written a second.

Thanks for that.

Now I realize that Georgia is not Switzerland and that the terrain may not favor these tactics, but I'm certain that the prospect of 500,000 pissed off Georgians with rifles and the skill to use them would give the Russians pause.

Besides, making riflemen and riflewomen in a free society is never a bad thing.

No home should be without that book.

The techniques are a bit dependent on Swiss-like terrain and attitudes, though Von Dach's pragmatic approach covers principles and generalities as well. Still, those who live in the Desert might do better with a copy of Lawrence's Seven Pillars, while those who are really in wooded wetlands may find Spencer Chapman's The Jungle Is Neutral more useful for their AO and way of doing things.

No home should be without that book. I didn't know he'd written a second.

Quite a few others, in fact, since the Swiss determination between soldier and civilian is largely dependent on whether or not the units have had sufficient notice to mobilize. But check out eighteen of his, and other authors titles available *here*... including *Total Resistance* applications of improvised Sten Guns, Grenades and boobytraps. Scroll down a bit to get past the introductory text.

The Serbs with whom I've crossed paths have been intelligent enough to know that it was corrupt American globalists they should direct their ire towards, not the American people. And quite a few have family members in the US, probably more of a percentage than Polish-Americans.

Thanks, Archy. I'll take comfort in your experiences since the one and only I've had was only partly good.

Way back when Gore was running for the presidency, there was a very multicultural protest against him at one of his fund raisers (Tech Museum in San Jose IIRC). I went because Melanie Morgan of KSFO (at that time) was trying to make it, but there were also quite a few Serbs and the totally communist International Answer.

Melanie didn't make it and there didn't seem to be her kind of group there. There probably isn't anyone more anticommunist than I am, but I have to say the worker bees of IA were helpful and let me use one of their signs that I could agree with.

Interestingly, the commies with coiffed hair and big rings took an immediate dislike to me--I guess they could tell I wasn't one of them although we had a common cause that day.

Anyway, I ended up talking with some Serbs. One old man was very surprised that I knew a little about the incredibly rich mining area that was in danger of being grabbed away but he couldn't shake his distrust of America(ns). I talked for a longer bit with a young couple.

They were surprised that I understood how destructive the Dayton Accord/Agreement was to Serbia at the hands of the Clinton scum. I told them about FR and suggested they check it out to see what Americans who got some factual information thought.

I tried to make the point that the real enemy was the media who were demonizing Serbs and misreporting most news from the area according to their own agenda. I tried to make them see that Americans wouldn't have been antagonistic towards Serbs if they knew the truth.

I think I did convince the young couple, but otherwise all I got for my trouble was being photographed by fast moving men in suits and ties.

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