... two sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Recent years saw a lot of talk about how this balance had been tilted as Azerbaijan used oil revenues to build up its military potential. At the same time, Armenia was particularly appalled by the fact that Russia, Armenia’s strategic ally, was also the
biggest
supplier of arms to Azerbaijan. Whereas prior to 2016 Moscow was blamed for those supplies mainly by the media, the expert community or by civil activists, after the April events even Armenia’s president Serzh Sargsyan, known for his cautiousness in public pronouncements,...
On the night of April 1–2, 2016 Azerbaijan launched the most massive military attack since the ... ... the two devaluations of the Azerbaijani currency
in 2015. The Russian-Turkish crisis and the ongoing tension in the relations ... ... command and control problems when coordinating actions of combined arms, tank, missile and artillery units.
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It can be assumed that ... ... escalating the conflict into an inevitable military retaliation by the Armenian side. It is noteworthy that NKR President Bako S. Sahakyan ...
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Source: compiled by author
Potential Outcomes for Transcaucasian Rearmament
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Russian 102nd Military Base
in Gyumri, Armenia
The above data clearly indicate that between 2000 and 2010, Transcaucasian... ... have considerably exceeded their CFE quotas. However, this can hardly be called an arms race.
This dynamic rearmament rather reflects overall trends specific to all CIS... ... to refurbish the outdated and obsolete arsenals they inherited from the USSR. As for Azerbaijan, it appears to be replicating the strategies of the affluent monarchies of...
