... 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 signing of the tripartite ... ... to face serious command and control problems when coordinating actions of combined arms, tank, missile and artillery units.
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It can be assumed that Baku arrived at the... ... and to prevent escalating the conflict into an inevitable military retaliation by the Armenian side. It is noteworthy that NKR President Bako S. Sahakyan said in an
interview...
... Russia and the United States are deeply engaged in the Nagorny Karabakh settlement, a conflict with Armenia does not appear likely. Moreover, a swift military operation is definitely out of the question.
At the same time, the drastically less affluent Armenia cannot afford an arms race with Azerbaijan. Yerevan seeks to invest its limited resources in upgrading certain weapons systems, apparently aiming to prevent a rapid Azerbaijani advance so that external actors could jump in, as well as to inflict unacceptable military damage on Baku....
