Wretchard,

Linked to you at “Power and Control” and “Classical Values”.

The key elements of the US response are leaving the 130 trainers in country and the American flights carrying the Georgian troops back to Georgia.

If a few “extra flights” can be maintained to start and then extended to resupply the Georgians and provide them with advisers the Russians may back off.

Fortunately the Georgians are retreating causing Russian blows to land in the air. Something the French, Polish, and Germans didn’t do well in WW2 making their armies brittle.