Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow Amb. David Smith, (Ret.), is the Director of the Georgian Security Analysis Center in Tbilisi, Georgia.  In a recent column for Georgian media, he writes about the Georgian contribution to the mission in Afghanistan.  Smith describes how Georgian troops have been trained by US Marines and have accompanied the Marines into combat.  He writes that "Georgia insisted on taking a full (and dangerous) combat role," and that it wanted its units to operate under the command of American Marines. Click here to read the article in full.