WretchardFrench units in Spain, forced to guard their vulnerable supply lines, were always in danger of being cut off and overwhelmed by the partisans, and proved unable to stamp out the Spanish army.

Except, don’t forget, it is nor Russia, but America with the long supply lines and facing dubious prospects of any ally supporting our supply line logistics into yet another neocon-driven war, (If the US was stupid enough to set up military forces in direct combat & conflict with Russians and S Ossetians in Georgia).

Remember that Russia has other ways of getting potent armor divisions into Georgia besides the Roki Tunnel. The Georgian Military Road (Darial Gorge), Ossetian Military Road in central Georgia as well as the Trans-Caucasus Highway (the one with the Roki tunnel) traverse this mountain range. Passes in Abkhazia, an Azerbaijan end-around, and easiest – use of SS-21s, existing artie, the Black Sea Fleet, and Russian airforce to eliminate any coastal opposition and simply ship and land it’s potent forces. All those Russian supply lines and force projection distances are under 80Km in length.
America’s?
12,000 Km.

Farewell and adieu unto you Spanish ladies,
Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain;
For we’re bound beyond the bar of Cadiz
And we’ll never see you again.

I’ll always remember that from the famous “male-bonding scene” from Jaws as Limey Robert Shaw sang it as a prelude to his Indianapolis “this could end very badly with sharks” harbinger bummer tale…