NahnCee – The flaw in your logic is you are thinking of warfare from a western point of view. The Russians don’t fight that way (see WWII eastern front, Afgan, Chechnya, etc). The Georgians know perfectly well what would happen if they start planting IEDs. Guerrilla warfare works great against a moral enemy, not so much against a foe who enjoys getting in the mud. I would venture that the Georgians have lived under Russian rule for long enough that they know perfectly well what their enemy is capable of and have chosen to decline giving them an excuse to venture into the darker parts of warfare. If the Russians start abusing the civis anyway, that calculus may change, but for now the Georgians appear to be playing it smart. Just my 2 cents.