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    MILITARY DOCTRINE OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA - ANALYSE

    Milaz.info
    http://milaz.info/en/news.php?id=6492
    Oct 18 2011
    Azerbaijan

    South Caucasus and Caspian Sea region being a sensitive and
    complicated area from the geo-political, geo-strategic, geo-economic
    and geo-cultural point of view, open for foreign influences in a great
    extent. Military doctrines of regional countries and their defense
    and military policies implemented based on these doctrines also play
    significant role in establishment and development of regional peace
    and stability, as well as on the contrary in violation of stability,
    in creation of tension and confrontations, crisis and conflicts in
    the whole region.

    Military doctrine being an officially announced system of views in
    state's military security field. determines political-military,
    political-strategic and political-economic basis of its military
    security, including the directions of combat preparation of state
    and armed force, methods and forms of its implementation.

    The provisions of military doctrine of every state may alter depending
    on thorough change of military security environment, military-political
    situation, as well as on internal political development and radical
    changes regarding strategic choice. In this regard, revision and
    update of military doctrine from time to time is expectable. In order
    to evaluate influence of military doctrinal views on establishment
    of peace and stability, development of freedom and democracy, people
    welfare integration in South Caucasus, first of all military doctrines'
    of the region countries (Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan), as well as
    military doctrines of Russia, Iran and Turkey, which have traditional
    interests in the region should be studies and evaluated in this regard.

    The Center of Military Analyses and Research has prepared the document
    "Military doctrines of regional countries - stability or the threat
    of confrontation?" by support Open Society Institute - Assistance
    Foundation. Today we publish the Military Doctrine of the Republic
    of Armenia.

    Military Doctrine of the Republic of Armenia

    Military Doctrine (MD) of the Republic of Armenia approved in December
    25, 2007, develops and specifies its provisions relating to defense
    and military field of National Security Strategy (NSS) approved on
    February 07, 2007.

    AR MD represents the sum of official conceptual views defining
    military-political, military-strategic, military-economic and
    military-technical bases of military security guarantee. It is
    indicated in the introduction part of MD that "Armenian Republic is
    a warrantor of Dagliq Qarabag Republic, guarantees the security of
    it and its chosen development way. It comes from the followings:

    - from the realities of new national cleansing of Armenian people
    suffered genocide in modern Azerbaijani territory (in Sumgayit,
    1980-1990, Baku and other places);

    - from the policy of Azerbaijani Republic on apply of military force
    against the legal and peaceful self-determination of Dagliq Qarabag
    people and their (Dagliq Qarabag people) involvement into the war
    in 1988-1994;

    - from the need of Dagliq Qarabag people's guarantee of their security,
    who are exposed to permanent physical threat, which is conditioned
    by the direction of Azerbaijani Republic's settlement of conflict by
    the way of force;

    - from the historical-territorial, moral-religious, ethnic and
    cultural identity of Armenian Republic and Dagliq Qarabag Republic
    and their population;

    - from the indisputable political-legal bases of the fact of Dagliq
    Qarabag people's self-determination in their own historical land;

    - from the invariability of realities of formation of Dagliq Qarabag
    Republic as a democratic, social and legal state;

    - from the mutual relationship of adoption of security guarantee
    issues of Armenian Republic and Dagliq Qarabag Republic".

    Immediately after, defense character of MD and its direction to
    military security guarantee of the country, reinforcement of peace
    and stability in the region is noted.

    As it is apparent from the text of the document, Armenia, which carries
    out ethnic cleansing (1988-99) against Azerbaijani turks, as well
    as against Muslim kurds in its territories, occupied 16% of neighbor
    Azerbaijani territory (1992-93) and carries out ethic cleansing and
    "burnt land" policy in this zone, openly supports armed separatism
    movement of ethnic Armenians living in Dagliq Qarabag by comprehensive
    assistance of Russia and being in territorial claim against other
    neighbor Georgia and supports Armenian separatism movement in its
    Chavakhetia region, places foreign military base within its territory
    and thus, plays destructive role in the region together with Russia,
    violates regional peace and stability and being of the main military
    threat sources tries "to base", to disguise its expansionist policy
    and to give defensive character to its military security policy.

    We should also note that Armenia, together with being RF's
    military-political ally and member of CSTO, at the same time plays
    the role of transmitting of Russian destructive policy in the region.

    MD's provisions with "defensive" character are implemented by means
    of defense strategy and military planning. In the document, among the
    list of main foreign threats (I part, I chapter) directed to military
    security of Armenia:

    - existence of Dagliq Qarabag conflict, tendency of Azerbaijani
    Republic to get military advantage over Armenian Republic and
    settlement of Dagliq Qarabag conflict by the military way, preparation
    of military operations against Armenian Republic and (or) Dagliq
    Qarabag Republic for this purpose;

    - establishment, reinforcement and enlargement of unions directed
    against Armenian Republic, particularly, strategic union of Turkish
    Republic and Azerbaijani Republic, its steps on blockade of Armenian
    Republic (this is considered as application of force);

    - economic, transport and communication isolation or isolation attempts
    of Armenian Republic, isolation of transit ways passing by the same
    bordering states" are also indicated.

    Although Armenia does not write openly its trying to give formally
    defensive character to its doctrine, as it is obvious from the text of
    document, that it considers Azerbaijan openly, by Turkey as a potential
    enemy and creates its military security policy on the grounds of this.

    Aggressor Armenia's defense and military policy in essence having
    deceitful character found its reflection in the whole spirit of the
    doctrine. Thus, it is noted in the 3-rd chapter of document relating
    to the principles, that Armenian "Defense Strategy bases on the
    principle of not attack and gives preference to diplomatic and other
    non-military methods of military security guarantee, prevention of
    threats and neutralization".

    One of the main principles of AR military security guarantee is
    also apply to ally and partner states in order to get necessary
    contribution from them within the frames of alliance and partnership
    liabilities. One of the main goals and duties of AR MD is also
    "military security guarantee of "Dagliq Qarabag Republic" (the chapter
    4). This provision demonstrates Armenian openly taking side in the
    conflict, supporting ethnic separatism, its violation regional peace
    and stability, and its being a real source of threat for security.

    Unlike Azerbaijan Armenia mainly gives special importance to:

    - throughout guarantee of military security and reinforcement of its
    military-political positions;

    - the total power of armed forces, as well as international military
    and military-technical cooperation, international guarantee of military
    security in order to keep relative equality (in fact, the superiority)
    of military and military-political unions in the region.

    Armenia among its priority directions of international military and
    military-technical cooperation gives the main places to its strategic
    ally Russian Federation, which plays the most destructive role in
    the region and to CSTO, the leader of which is Russia.

    Along with this, among the priorities in this field in the doctrine,
    development of bilateral military cooperation with U.S, cooperation
    with NATO and partners among the member-states of alliance within
    the framework of Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and "Partnership
    for Peace" are stipulated in the doctrine as well.

    The completion of reformation of military security system in 2015 is
    also considered in the Military Doctrine of Armenian Republic. Besides
    this, the document will be reconsidered from the viewpoint of its
    principles and goals.

    The Center of Military Analyses and Research

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