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Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

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    Nagorno-Karabakh young soldiers' lives in limbo

    “All men and women of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic are part of the army, but we cannot say how many soldiers are now operative over the frontline” explains an official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Stepanakert. Almost one year after the April War an ordinary life is going on among villages and streets of the Armenia-backed unrecognised nation. All the aspiring republic’s inhabitants clearly remember the destructive violence of the decades-old conflict. Some of them aspire for a resolution. They believe in a better future to live for the next generations. The conflict started in 1988 and escalated into full-scale war when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Armenians went to war with Azerbaijan, with backing from Armenia. The conflict left 65,000 ethnic Armenians and 40,000 ethnic Azeris displaced. While a cease-fire was declared in May 1994 and the violence abated, soldiers are still engaged in defending their positions over the frontline and required training in military bases. Final negotiations are taking place in Moscow but the ceasefire is regularly broken with casualties on both sides. Few days before I was there one of the Artsakh young soldiers was shot by Azeri snipers and injured. Transferred to the hospital in Yerevan, his life is still on risk. Clashes between the Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces over the breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh last year were the worst violence the region has seen since the ethnic war over the territory ended in 1994. Azerbaijan boasted of “destroying” 170 opposing troops, while sources from the Armenian Karabakhi forces estimated they had killed 300 Azeri soldiers. In the village of Talish, Azeris forces entered houses killing four old-men. Their ears were brutally cut off. Traces of those raids are still visible walking through bombed-out houses, shops and destroyed schools. Locals were transferred to near villages, where they found relatives and neighbours. The border territory is now full of military camps and bases proving how military life is not over. In Stepanakert, the capital, a military academy substituted the traditional high-school. Male and female teenagers aged 13-18 are learning maths, history and english after physical exercises and marches. Unemployment is high, salaries are low, opportunities are few; the young continue to leave in search of better futures abroad. When Artsakh men reach 18 years-old they are whisked away for two years of military national service. That’s what it means living in a region stalked by conflict: security measures trump most other considerations.








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      Originally posted by Eddo211 View Post
      Diehard wasn't it the tow missile fired off of the Abram tank the decisive factor in the Gulf tank war? tx
      Those were one of the reasons why the US won, but 50% of the entire reason was, because most of the 'T-72's' weren't really T-72's, they were literately a downgrade of a downgrade of a downgrade, even the shells weren't even properly designed, the tanks were so bad that when a Abrams shot those T-72's they literately exploded into millions of pieces.

      You can wright "Tank Disasters Asad Babil" and it will explain everything.

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        Originally posted by DieHard69 View Post
        Those were one of the reasons why the US won, but 50% of the entire reason was, because most of the 'T-72's' weren't really T-72's, they were literately a downgrade of a downgrade of a downgrade, even the shells weren't even properly designed, the tanks were so bad that when a Abrams shot those T-72's they literately exploded into millions of pieces.

        You can wright "Tank Disasters Asad Babil" and it will explain everything.
        Iraqi Tank T72M Asad Babil, the Lion of Babylon (1990)

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                      Wait, first immage on above post burjuin......is that General kostanyan?

                      What happened to his face? I can see a small scare lower right cheek but what is that white line across his face and head.

                      And why is that soldiers AK without a magazine? Safety inspection station?
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