Strategos (Jan 2022)
The War Between Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2020 – Lessons Learned
Abstract
The article identifies lessons learned from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the geostrategic context of international relations and politics and in elements influencing the future of warfare. Namely, Azerbaijan inflicted heavy losses on Armenian troops practically without the use of conventional aviation. The Nagorno-Karabakh war is often viewed in an international context through the prism of distant conflict (far from eyes and far from the heart) or through a label of the frozen conflict. However, it is unlikely that this conflict, which caused an average of about 60 deaths a year between 1994 and 2020, leaves men indifferent, despite what the international community calls a frozen conflict, whose future depends directly on timely and accurate response of the international community. It can be said that the view of the subject conflict is still frozen because it is something that has been happening for so many years, so it has become a part of everyday life that does not affect a person’s mood. Therefore, the prevailing opinion is that in this global world, interest must be expressed in every conflict because it will, in one way or another, affect states and populations, at least through the dimension of environmental pollution or arrival of refugees.
