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Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

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  • Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan

    Originally posted by londontsi View Post
    This type of announcements hardly support your view.

    In politics ideas and strategies have a habit of reviving in different guises.
    The reason is, the objectives of the bigger actor’s ultimate goal has not been achieved AND they have not given up.
    Remember behind every small player there is a big player lurking.
    They could only “stop” if an absolute victory is registered by one of the sides.
    Well in pursuing a Caucasian confederation they want only the South Caucasus to be in it, no external powers. Honestly I don't think it's viable at all, even if Karabakh is solved, but by referrence to Iran-Georgian relations was due to the fact that after the 2008 war, relations were boosted, as agreements were signed, visas abolished, and a visit by Ahmadinejad promised.
    Մեկ Ազգ, Մեկ Մշակույթ
    ---
    "Western Assimilation is the greatest threat to the Armenian nation since the Armenian Genocide."

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      A Caucasus confederation is not going to happen until there is peace between Armenia and azerbaijan. And that will take quite some time. Any talk of a Caucasus Union is just that, talk. Pay no heed.
      For the first time in more than 600 years, Armenia is free and independent, and we are therefore obligated
      to place our national interests ahead of our personal gains or aspirations.



      http://www.armenianhighland.com/main.html

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        Nezavisimaya Gazeta website, Russia
        Feb 18 2011


        South Caucasus soldiers of fortune: difficult situation at lines of
        contact in Nagornyy-Karabakh

        by Yuriy Roks
        [translated from Russian]

        On Thursday, soldiers from the Nagornyy-Karabakh [NKR] Defence Army
        repulsed an act of sabotage by Azerbaijani troops. According to the
        press service of the unrecognized republic's defence ministry, "when
        they ran into a solid defence . . . the officers from the enemy's
        special operations unit took flight." "According to preliminary
        reports, the enemy suffered casualties. There were no casualties among
        the servicemen of the NKR Defence Army," the report says.

        Just ahead of this, the foreign ministries of France, Germany, and the
        United Kingdom had warned their citizens against visiting
        Nagornyy-Karabakh. The tourist memos mention the tense situation in
        the region and the likelihood of renewed fighting between Azerbaijan
        and the unrecognized republic.

        The Yerevan newspaper Ayots Ashkhar ("Country of Armenia") published
        in unison a report about how Baku emissaries were recruiting Azeris
        who live in Georgia for a war in NKR. The article cites trustworthy
        sources and says that in the Georgian region of Kvemo Kartli,
        approximately half of whose population comprises Azeris, agitators
        from Baku have become active, recruiting people for military actions
        in Karabakh for considerable sums. What is Georgia's leadership's
        attitude towards the fact that an "underground" draft organized by
        another state is under way in the country? the newspaper asks.

        A Georgian Interior Ministry spokesperson denied this information. "If
        these kinds of processes were going on in Kvemo Kartli, we would know
        about it," he asserted. A competent source in Yerevan noted in turn
        that what was reported in the newspaper could not be ruled out. "We
        know that foreigners have participated in the Karabakh war. Among them
        there have been Azeris from Georgia. But why Baku might need
        'legionaries' now is hard to understand. They have a large army as it
        is, and I personally see no sense in actions that could cast a shadow
        over Georgia, which is friendly to Azerbaijan," he said. The source
        did not try to deny the fact that there was a difficult situation at
        lines of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh. "The Azerbaijani side is
        ignoring our calls and demands to remove its intermediaries, as our
        agreements stipulate, and its snipers, which are violating the
        ceasefire," he confirmed, but at the same time he called for the
        warnings from the European capitals not to be viewed as unusual or
        official statements. These kinds of "reminders could refer to any
        troubled spot in the world."

        The Azerbaijani media also differed on the issue of legionaries. A few
        days ago several publications at once declared that the Armenian
        diaspora had dispatch an army of 200,000 for the war in Karabakh, an
        army that allegedly was already deployed near Yerevan. However, this
        "trustworthy information" has been viewed sceptically by the local
        community. In particular, political analyst Zardusht Ali-Zade, in a
        work devoted to the Armenian-Azerbaijani problem, advised authors of
        "sensational" stories to engage their minds instead of their fantasies
        and ask themselves how and where, in modern conditions, one could
        camouflage 200,000 people who at least need to be fed more than once
        daily?

        Fantasies and conjectures aside, a few days ago official persons from
        the opposing sides demonstrated once again their polar vision of the
        conflict's resolution. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev once again
        criticized the mediation of the OSCE [Organization for Security and
        Cooperation in Europe] Minsk Group, while at the same time admitting
        that "advancement on the issue of a Karabakh settlement is likely in
        the event that the Armenian side accepts the thesis of the
        impossibility of NKR independence."

        Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan answered him from Yerevan.
        In an interview with MTRK [Interstate Television-Radio Company] Mir,
        the diplomat presented documents on the cessation of military actions
        signed in the mid-1990s by Azerbaijani and Nagornyy-Karabakh leaders.
        According to Kocharyan's statement, they [the documents] attest to the
        fact that "in essence, Azerbaijan has recognized the NKR." "Any
        attempts at blackmail or militaristic threats . . . are the main brake
        on the advancement of the settlement process," he summarized.

        However, Jane's Intelligence, an American research centre, states that
        today thought needs to be given more to halting the process's
        regression than to its advancement. Despite diplomatic efforts, the
        conflict is being fanned. "Azerbaijan is attempting to change the
        17-year status quo at the expense of its profits from the sale of oil
        and natural gas. In 2011 Baku intends to allocate 3.1 billion dollars
        to the military sphere, which outstrips Armenia's analogous
        expenditures by a factor of six. Azerbaijan's spending just on
        acquiring cartridges in the last few years in all likelihood exceeded
        1 billion dollars," the report says. While noting Azerbaijan's
        quantitative superiority in material and manpower, Jane's Intelligence
        at the same doubts that this superiority will be converted into a
        qualitative one. Working against that are Karabakh's location, the
        military alliance between Armenia and Russia, and also the domestic
        political situation. "None of this rules out the likelihood of a
        renewal of military actions in Karabakh, but the sides' limited
        capabilities and the position of the international community narrow
        this scenario for the development of events," Jane's Intelligence
        remarks.

        [translated from Russian]

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              Azeris looking to aquire this http://www.tetraedr.com/en/productio...tail.php?ID=11 from Belarus.
              It's somewhat better than Osa apparently (longer range)

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                Large losses in the Azerbaijani armed forces
                As it became known Voskanapat.info, located in a military unit Dashkesan Azerbaijan skirmish, which killed seven soldiers of Azerbaijan, at least five others received injuries of various degrees of severity. As it became known Voskanapat.info from its own sources, the firing was due to non-statutory relationship between the Azerbaijani armed forces of different nationalities. We recall that a few months ago, this division of the Azerbaijani notorious yet another shootout, which resulted in the 3 officers were killed and 2 soldiers.

                Voskanapat.info

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                  Don't tell me,is that so hmm. Great news indeed ," due to non-statutory relationship between the Azerbaijani armed forces of different nationalities " info about this will be prove allot in future

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                    they had the same problem during the first war, they would send out the minorities to do the dirty work and then the azeris would move in. the afghan mujahideen wanted to kill the azeri conscripts because, well, they were idiots

                    Apparently discipline broke down occasionally, even requiring young Azeri conscripts to be moved to other sectors of the front to avoid their killing by the Mujahedin. Insubordination became a problem, probably because of two characteristics specific to Afghan Mujahedin: fearlessness and the concept of loyalty.

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                      Azerbaijani Army lost seven servicemen

                      [ 21 Feb 2011 11:10 ]
                      Baku. Hafiz Heydarov – APA. Azerbaijani Army has lost seven servicemen.

                      Defense Ministry’s press service told APA that the Defense Ministry and Republic Military Prosecutor’s Office will issue a joint statement about it.

                      The details of the incident are not publicized.

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