Volume 7, Issue 4, Winter 2022 36 parts of the world. Therefore, the lessons of Nagorno-Karabakh are that advanced air forces have very little to learn from this war. Conversely – air defence forces and ground forces, even of armies that have advanced air forces, must take into account and prepare to meet a new threat that enables poorer and even primitive military forces to create an aerial threat that did not exist before. References [i] Uzi Rubin, The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: A Milestone in Military Affairs, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, December 2020, https://besacenter.org/nagorno-karabakh-war-milestone/, pp 4, 5. The quotes from this source are only an example of many similar claims. [ii] The Azeris do not admit this but comparing their statements at different times reveals their inaccuracy. On the Armenian side, nine days after the war ended, Armenian General Movses Hakobyan, Chief Military Inspector of the Armed Forces, resigned and claimed that all the official statements by the Armenian Ministry of Defence had been lies. "Movses Hakobyan reveals military secrets about Armenia's defeat", Vestnik Kavkaza, 19 November 2020, https://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/ Movses-Hakobyan-reveals-military-secrets-about-Armenia-s-defeat.html. Even without accepting Hakobyan's statement as completely accurate, a detailed reading of those statements suggests a great deal of obfuscation. [iii] Officially the Armenian side included two separate political and military entities: the Republic of Artsakh in the NagornoKarabakh territory and its ally the Republic of Armenia which only assisted Artsakh. For this article, the difference does not matter. For the sake of brevity and clarity and without going into political and legal implications, they will be referred to in general as Armenians. [iv] Stijn Mitzer, Joost Oliemans, Jakub Janovsky, 'Dan' & 'COIN', "The Fight For Nagorno-Karabakh: Documenting Losses on The Sides Of Armenia and Azerbaijan", ORYX, https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2020/09/the-fight-for-nagorno-karabakh. html. The list is updated occasionally as new information is found. The version downloaded is updated to 25 October 2021. The current author has considered and corrected a couple of small errors. [v] President Aliyev's Speech to the Nation, 1st December 2020, https://mod.gov.az/en/news/president-of-azerbaijan-ilhamaliyev-addressed-the-nation-video-33929.html. [vi] Aliyev's statement did not include the wide variety of other utility vehicles – jeeps, vans etc. According to Oryx data, these include approximately 85 more vehicles destroyed by drones. [vii] P. H. Pukhov (Editor), Storm Over Caucasus (Russian), Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, 2021, p 49. Drones in the Nagorno-Karabakh War: Analyzing the Data Eado Hecht
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