When you invade a puny country without a real army, any doctrine would probably work. That one makes a lot of sense, with an emphasis on protecting the mechanized infantry. Light infantry is for clean up. I get that.
Can that be scaled up for combat with a real competitor country? How would it work as defense if an army crossed their border from, say China?
>>>When you invade a puny country without a real army, any doctrine would probably work. That one makes a lot of sense, with an emphasis on protecting the mechanized infantry. Light infantry is for clean up. I get that.<<<
Well, Georgia has invested enormous resources into it’s military since 2004 and it was by all objective accounts more numerous and better equipped than invading Russian force.
Russians has sent under 10 thousand troops to Ossetia and airdropped some 4000 VDV personnel to Azkhazia. It is a much lesser force than the entire Georgian military at the time.
As for main disadvantage for the Georgian troops is that their air force seized operations as soon as Russian planes appeared.