Azerbaijani and Armenian military Clashes

[FJAG]

Probably becasue they needed to be, of course.

Both armies are also conscript armies, which come with a variety of advantages that we will never really have access to like large numbers of trained troops available relatively quickly.

That reminds me of liaison visit Old Sweat and I had to an Alpini artillery regiment in the Alps which was 90% made up of conscripts. There was a young 2nd Lt (they actually conscript a herd of people and some are trained as 2nd Lts and others as Sgts while the rest fill in all the remaining OR positions) who was an architect in civvy life and whose only assignment with the regiment was to make the panorama sketches used at the observation post. They were absolutely gorgeous paintings suitable for framing. When you conscript you do get a good cross section of society in the ranks.

I'm still a firm believer that if you do a reserve system right, you can also get a good cross section of skilled and capable folks to do a wide variety of trades to use in a real emergency (not this headquarters Class B carousel that the CAF is on but real emergencies)

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Some more on the conflict and lessons to be learned https://www.civilnet.am/news/2020/1...pcnBNu0jWekSNIa5nyx0tSRSu6H-y3UsXwSkQyqNVG4VU

 

[daftandbarmy]

Some more on the conflict and lessons to be learned https://www.civilnet.am/news/2020/1...pcnBNu0jWekSNIa5nyx0tSRSu6H-y3UsXwSkQyqNVG4VU

Whew.... that's a tough read.

Good thing we're buying a new pistol because that's, like, super important in modern conflicts like this, right?

 

[a_majoor]

A video summarizing the coflict:

 

[daftandbarmy]

A video summarizing the coflict:

So they bought the drones in May and used them, very successfully, in action in September?

I think we need a 'developing world' style procurement and deployment system like that

 

[CBH99]

They looked at a product and said "Hey, these will come in handy if we find ourselves in a war. Let's negotiate a price and buy them." BOOM. DONE. Doesn't look like a lot of f**kery behind the scenes.

I agree 100%. If by developing world, you mean common sense & efficient

 

[GR66]

Looks like the fight over Nagorno-Karabakh has flared up again...

Azerbaijan launches operation against Nagorno-Karabakh and demands surrender

Baku says the operation against its ethnic-Armenian enclave will stop only if it sees a white flag.

www.bbc.com

Azerbaijan has launched new attacks on ethnic-Armenian separatists and says the attacks will continue until they surrender. Probably taking advantage of the Russians being a little preoccupied elsewhere.