Yeah, that is certainly a... novel.. interpretation.
But the Georgians could have done better if they had organized their military around light infantry equipped with anti-tanks weapons. The country is made for hitting armored forces from the hills. This strategy also dovetails into the media war. Chop up an isolated Russian armored column and slaughter a bunch of Russian reservists in a supply column. Get the video uploaded. Change the narrative.
It's a shame the Georgians couldn't have made this more bloody for Uncle Vlad, or provoked him into bloody over-reaction.
Chop up an isolated Russian armored column and slaughter a bunch of Russian reservists in a supply column.
is exactly what the Chechens did to several tank columns when the Russians went into Grozny in 1995. So it can be done.
I think it was pretty much a given for chances of success. They are afterall within driving distance. But there is still a chance that small band of the homeboys might get behind them and do what the Iraqi insurgents pulled off. Killing a lot of russian soldiers in a few attacks would really make them look bad.