Should Georgia Follow the Hezbollah Model?

Via Robert Farley, Greg Grant at DoD Buzz writes:

A defense analyst I spoke with, who advises American ground forces, said to rebuild the Georgian military along conventional lines might be the wrong approach. Instead he suggested a different force model, that of Hezbollah. What Hezbollah did so effectively, as was shown in the 2006 Lebanon war, was combine modern weaponry with a distributed infantry force that fought in guerrilla fashion. Fighting as distributed networks, Hezbollah rarely presented an inviting target for Israeli air and artillery attack, but their well trained tactical units were able to swarm at the point of attack of Israeli armored incursions and hit the Israelis hard with precision anti-tank weaponry.

Given that Russia doesn't seem to want to physically occupy the entirety of the country, this seems to be a pretty draconian fix. As Farley notes, such an approach may not serve the broader interests of the Georgian military establishment so well (not to mention Mikhail Saakashvili's stated aversion to beards). Nevertheless, it's clear that the Georgian military needs a more asymmetric approach to its conventionally superior neighbor.