Balance of Powers: Experts Compared the Georgia Army and the contingent of the Russians in the Caucasus

The Georgian Army exceeds the forces of the Russians in the occupied Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but the troops of the Southern Military District, which are in the Russian Federation, "hang" over it. Against the background of political movements in Georgia, military analysts evaluated the potential of the Georgian Armed Forces and the number of the country's army, comparing them with the number of Russian contingent in occupied Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

It turned out that in the population of almost 5 million, Georgia has an army of more than 20,000 soldiers in total. Defense Express writes more about it. In their estimates, the observers relied on the data of The Military Balance 2024, according to which at the beginning of the current year, the number of Georgia's armed forces was 20,650 people per defense budget of $ 507 million.

The structure of the land troops includes one special purpose team, one mechanized, three lightweight brigades, two artillery and one engineering brigade. Georgia's technical equipment covers the following types of weapons: Air Force and Air Force has 1300 people, with various equipment: in the temporarily occupied territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Russian troops with a total number of about 4 thousand people are located.

Thus, in Abkhazia there are one mechanized brigade and the anti-aircraft missile regiment with complexes of C-300PS, and in South Ossetia-another mechanized brigade. Finally, the observers noted that in addition, the troops of the Southern Military District, which are directly in the territory of Russia, "hang" over Georgia.