I liked the hedgehog strategy outline previously. I've often wondered how it might work if a nation designed their defense around the idea of planning ahead of time for a guerilla war against an invader rather than hoping to stop a more powerful enemy. One idea I had would be making the copper plates needed for SEFOP IEDs commonly available.

 

Another thought I've had was inspired by the generally ineffective use of Katyusha rockets by the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. What if an artillery rocket was packaged in a single-shot, disposable launcher with some wheels at one end to facilitate being dragged by one or more soldiers. It would need a simple folding bipod and basic elevation controls to aim it in the general direction of the target and fire it on an elevation compatible with efficiently reaching the general vicinity of the target. Ballistic accuracy wouldn't be needed for this weapon because it would be GPS guided. It would have a control panel to enter the coordinates of the target and would launch on either a time delay, or in a time on target mode that would automatically calculate an approximate time of flight to the coordinates entered and launch the rocket at the correct time to get there for the TOT. Then the nation desiring occupation insurance makes or buys these and places caches of them in secure locations around the country. If invaded, the military disperses and takes them into hiding. I wouldn't want to be an enemy occupying any fixed location in that country.

I am just interested in why russians arent moving against central asia ( it's not like like NATO could help anybody there) China? And i think those countries still have much soviet legacy....more than baltics for example . Kazakhstan still has like 80% o f people fluent in russian..no western democratic mumbo jumbo there. And they have oil.. and russian could stop paying for baikonur:D. Its bigger price with less headache.