Military Estimates on Russia-Georgia Conflict?

[Dan the Roman]

There are currently about 1000 US Troops in the country, but they are highly unlikely to be a major factor since neither the US or Russia want them to be involved.

Also raw numbers are, as the Armenian-Azerbaijan war in the early 1990s proved, much less important than the quality for whats going on now. So far at least, Russia does not appear to attempting to occupy all of Georgia, and so no general war has broken out. Given that the actual fighting seems limited to South Ossetia and Abkhazia , Georgia's massive numeric inferiority is less relevant. At the same time, the fact that the Georgians are a professional force that are American trained and have seen action in Iraq in urban environments while the Russians are a low-morale, poorly trained, conscript force is likely to keep it closer than it would otherwise be.