Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
Federate, this might be the latest method for being able to reveal casualties. They can spread out the deaths for several days over several fronts. We'll see. I can understand someone being skeptical of information from both Armenia and Azerbaijan but I think, and we all know, that Azeris consistently downplay their losses in battlefield and always have since their losses began in the early 1990's. The obviously do this to out of self-prtotection (Aliyev regime and military command), pride, morale, etc. What they do tend to do is that whenever the Armenians retaliate after a thwarted Azeri attack, the Azeris suddenly start reporting lost men over the next few days in freak accidents, mysterious shooting, suicides, death from illness, etc near the front. My problem is that within the Armenian military (and this seems to happen in the Azeri military three-fold), the attempt to hide deaths due to hazing, suicide, etc. It happens in all militaries and if Armenia is able to curb these deaths or investigate them credibly sand punish the perpetrators, continue reform, etc, their credibility will then be unquestionable.
Originally posted by Federate
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