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FPRI’s Michael Cecire Quoted on US Shifting Military Aid in Georgia
FPRI’s Michael Cecire Quoted on US Shifting Military Aid in Georgia
“There was a tacit understanding that Georgian participation in Afghanistan had combat training that made Georgian soldiers better equipped for territorial defense, but the training wasn’t territorial defense per se, or even combined arms. They definitely got into combat situations in Afghanistan, but the transferability of skills was inexact,” said Michael Cecire, a Caucasus defense analyst and associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, in an email interview with The Bug Pit.