Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

[Joseph]

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“Military operations conducted by you will be included in military textbooks in the future.”-Aliyev

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/27656534.html

right along with the exploits of Alexander the Great and Khalid ibn al-Walid
another classic statement along with the many from his golden twitter account
you know, it would be a lot funnier if this monkey wasn't responsible for about a hundred parents who won't see their child again

Oh Aliyev, you never disappoint.

[Shant03]

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I recall an armenian company manufacturing stealth camouflage material which would be perfect for tanks.

[Joseph]

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http://armenianweekly.com/2016/04/05/armenians-should-ensure-this-is-last-azeri-attack/

Sassounian: Armenians Should Ensure this Is the Last Azeri Attack


By Harut Sassounian on April 5, 2016


The world woke up last Saturday morning to the drumbeats of war from a large-scale assault by Azerbaijan on tiny Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh/NKR).

This was not a surprise attack! For many years, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has had the nasty habit of launching military attacks on the Republics of Armenia and Artsakh whenever international peace talks or Summit Meetings were being held.

Even a casual observer of this long-running conflict could have guessed that Azerbaijan would launch yet another attack during last weekend’s Nuclear Security Summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama and attended by 50 heads of state, including the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey. Some observers were surprised by the large scale of the Azeri attack which involved tanks, helicopters, missiles, and drones. In fact, the scope of the assault should not have come as a surprise, given Azerbaijan’s technological escalation of aggression in recent years. Aliyev’s sinister practice of timing military attacks with peace talks or international conferences reflects his intensive efforts to keep the Artsakh conflict as a burning issue at all cost.

Certainly, Aliyev is increasingly frustrated by his inability to intimidate Armenians into giving up the territory of Artsakh despite Azerbaijan’s purchase of multi-billion dollars of modern weaponry. Aliyev is also distressed by his failure to use his country’s vast oil and gas resources as an inducement to pressure world leaders into supporting Azerbaijan in the Artsakh conflict. As a result, the Baku dictator has wasted huge amounts of his country’s wealth to bribe foreign officials and purchase expensive but ineffective weapons.

Furthermore, as Azerbaijan’s father and son Presidential Dynasty, the Aliyevs have persistently threatened to attack and “liberate the occupied territories of Karabagh” for over 20 years. Since they have cried wolf for far too long, very few Azeris take their president’s bravado talk too seriously. Consequently, Aliyev has been desperate to take any and all measures, no matter how reckless, to save face at home and abroad!

It is important to understand the timing and motive of Aliyev’s aggressive behavior so that other countries are not blamed for instigating these attacks which would only serve to shift attention from the only guilty party –Azerbaijan! However, there are other countries that have a share of the blame: First among these is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey for its direct participation and support of Azerbaijan’s military misadventures. The Minsk Group of mediators (France, Russia, and United States) are also guilty for remaining silent during previous Azeri aggressions and blaming both sides each time Azerbaijan attacked Armenia or Artsakh. The international community’s shameful silence and doubletalk routinely equated the victimizer with the victim, thereby emboldening the warmongering Aliyev!

One particularly horrifying episode during this latest attack validated the concern of all those who have been warning for years about the risk of genocide threatening Artsakh’s Armenians. Over the weekend, when Azeri soldiers temporarily took over the Talish village, just inside Artsakh’s border, they not only executed an elderly Armenian couple, but barbarically cut off their ears as souvenirs! Such savagery, at a minimum, is a war crime under international law! Just imagine what these brutal Azeri soldiers would have done if they had overrun the entire population of Artsakh. It would have been a bloodbath of immense proportion—a second Armenian Genocide!

Three firm conclusions should be drawn from the latest massive Azeri aggression:

1) Artsakh Armenians can never go back to live under the despotic rule of Azerbaijan, no matter how many times Aliyev threatens or attacks.

2) Armenians should not just repel the Azeri forces, but inflict such massive destruction that Aliyev would never again think of another attack. Already, thousands of volunteers from all over Armenia have rushed to Artsakh’s defense. Azerbaijan is aware that its multi-billion dollar oil fields and pipelines are in easy reach of Armenia’s long-range missiles!

3) It is time to declare Artsakh an inseparable part of the Republic of Armenia. On April 4, Armenia’s President Serge Sarkisian told foreign ambassadors in Yerevan that if the hostilities continued and escalated, Armenia would “recognize Karabagh’s independence.”

[armo12]

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Brothers,does anyone know the fate of the soldiers missing in action? :/

[haydavid]

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Brothers,does anyone know the fate of the soldiers missing in action? :/

Probably dead and their bodies not found/ in ennemy hands.
If they were captured we would have seen their faces on azeri media

[ninetoyadome]

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Someone translated the video posted earlier:

[Everything in square brackets is my commentary. The call was made by an Azeri lady.]

-Hello?

[the rest is spoken by the caller]

Don't worry it's all good now [in desperate tone].

[receiver probably asks something about others that was cut out]

No, Akash is in Baku, I'm in the village. Who will transport me?

President went there. It's all good.

The world is collapsing. Do not believe the TV.

Here they collect dead bodies in cars like they do to chopped wood. Do not believe the TV [most likely referring to Azeri TV reports about only few dozen deaths].

They don't mention 1 death out of 3, they don't mention even 1. They mention only 1 death out of 1000.

All hospitals in regions are full. Evlax, Gajna [this is a major city], Naftalan, Geranboy, Terter, Barda, hospitals in villages are all full.

I swear, do not believe the TV. They didn't say anything about how Akash was wounded.

They beat 2,000 soldiers in one night. They should say it on TV.

[audio cuts?]

Yes, in Talish. They took Talish and killed everyone in a siege. [Talish is an Armenian village that Azerbaijan took earlier but then Armenians took it back]

They transferred Akash with a medical helicopter.

They transferred all heavily wounded. President ordered to take utmost care of them.

Soldiers are dying from hunger. No one is looking after. [what the hell???]

From Akash's car, he was the sole survivor out of 12 people.

They don't say anything about Akash. They don't say about a single car. About a single battalion. [I'm assuming she means many cars transporting soldiers and battalions were destroyed].

[Some conversations takes place about sending something that was cut off]

I will send, but do not give to anyone. We can't spread this. They say Armenians might "catch" it. [I guess she is referring to this very same conversation that they were having]

[Joseph]

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Brothers,does anyone know the fate of the soldiers missing in action? :/

Not yet- I assume they are KIA or among the wounded and perhaps not documented yet.

[Artsakh]

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Pretty interesting development, wondering if anyhow related or a message to the baboons in any way:

"The Russian military began on Tuesday five-day exercises in Russia’s southern Dagestan region bordering Azerbaijan. It was not clear whether the drills reportedly involving about 1,000 soldiers as well as dozens of tanks and artillery systems were planned beforehand or are connected with the Karabakh escalation."

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/27656358.html

[Artsakh]

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Not yet- I assume they are KIA or among the wounded and perhaps not documented yet.

Let's not presume the worst, hope for the best, and wait and see.

[Joseph]

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Let's not presume the worst, hope for the best, and wait and see.

Let's pray for their safe return, brother.