12 years after the ISAF was launched in Afghanistan, NATO braces itself for painful pursuit of an optimal scenario of future Western cooperation with the Kabul Authorities in light of the looming end of the ISAF mission by 2014. Tbilisi is eager more than even Brussels to learn what to expect next because almost 1600 Georgian troops operating under the ISAF in Afghanistan is the largest among the military units of non-NATO countries participating in the mission.

The delegation of Georgia’s Ministry of Defence visited the province of Helmand, Afghanistan.

Staff Sergeant Christopher Page wasn't supposed to return home from Afghanistan until May. At least that's what his two sons thought.

Rehabilitation centre of international standards will be created in Tbilisi for the physical, social and psychological rehabilitation of Georgian military servants. The project is financially supported by the U.S.
The rehabilitation centre was visited by the U.S. ambassador Richard Norland today, after meeting with the centre management and the high ranking officials of the Ministry of Defense.

In 100 days after the formation of the new Government, Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Alasania presented the document called “Minister’s Vision” to the public and foreign partners. This paper is supposed to be adopted as a guideline for the ministry for the next two years.

Defense ministry has published photographic and video material of the conditions at the No. 3 Kutaisi Infantry Brigade and No. 2 Senaki Infantry Brigade bases, which the Minister Irakli Alasania visited for getting acquainted with infrastructure issues and living conditions of service members on February 12.

These soldiers are preparing themselves for a special drill -- the South Korean army's annual winter training. The 230 soldiers are members of the South Korean army's Special Forces.

Mountain Military Training School that derives from the 16th mountain batallion formed in 1991, continues special mountain training of Georgian and NATO troops designed for a winter period.
In the framework of Partnership for Peace NATO Program, 19 military officers from Georgia, Ukraine and Poland are engaged on almost one-month long special course from 20 January till 15 February. Sachkhere military instructors took the trainees to Abuli mountain in Akhalkalaki to practice shooting at 3000m above see level.

Dmitriy Rogozin: “French Mistral cannot endure Russian freeze”

Since the resignation of Anatoliy Serdiukov from his post of Russian Defense Minister last autumn almost every week we witness scandals ravaging this ministry. “French Mistrals cannot endure Russian freeze because they are designed to operate at minus 7 degrees Celsius at most,” – declared Russian Vice-PM Dmitriy Rogozin on 26 January.