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Tag Archives: Caucasus

Navigating the Future: NATO-South Caucasus Partnership

20 Thursday Sep 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Caucasus, European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense

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Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Collective Security Treaty Organisation, Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia, South Caucasus

English: The breakaway republics of Abkhazia, ...

The breakaway republics of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh within the Caucasus region, after the South Ossetia war in August 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Valentina M. Gevorgyan, Atlantic Community, September 20, 2012

At the recent Chicago Summit, NATO made sure to prioritize partnerships on its agenda. The South Caucasus region is one that can greatly benefit from NATO partnership, especially where security and justice are concerned. NATO’s efforts in the region should aim at resolving frozen conflicts, including the Nagorno Karabagh conflict… (more) ow.ly/2shrzh 

 

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  • Nagorno-Karabakh: On The Knife’s Edge (azerbaijanfree.com)
  • Flashpoint Between Turkey and Iran – The Caucasus Corridor (intelloverwatch.com)
  • U.S. Army Command develops Caucasus-linked military scenarios (panarmenian.net)
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CSTO Exercises Tiptoe Around Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict

20 Thursday Sep 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Caucasus, European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense, Russia

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Armenia, Caucasus, Central Asia, Collective Security Treaty Organisation, Military exercise, Russia

 

Political Map of the Caucasus and Central Asia

Political Map of the Caucasus and Central Asia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

By Joshua Kucera, The Bug Pit (Eurasianet), September 20, 2012

 

The Collective Security Treaty Organization has wrapped up its annual military exercises, held this year in Armenia, with the group’s general secretary saying the group needs to create its own military forces, including air forces, in Central Asia. But at a time of heightened tensions in the Caucasus, the drills took a relatively low profile… (more) http://ow.ly/2sgQSy 

 

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  • Post-Soviet military alliance hold drills (upi.com)
  • Russian Defense Minister to visit Armenia (panarmenian.net)
  • Experts on Caucasus-2012 drills: Russia warns Azerbaijan against war (panarmenian.net)

 

Russia’s Caucasus War Games

18 Tuesday Sep 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Caucasus, European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense, Russia

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Armenia, Caucasus, Collective Security Treaty Organisation, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Russians, Tajikistan

 

Administrative map of Caucasus in USSR, 1957-1991

Administrative map of Caucasus in USSR, 1957-1991 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Every time Russia comes to play war in the Caucasus, a sense of alert spreads in the neighborhood. And it does not help if the Russians are running around with guns for two separate war games at the same time… (more) ow.ly/1mvgzzBy Giorgi Lomsadze, Eurasianet, September 18, 2012

 

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CSTO Joint Military Maneuvers Continue In Armenia

 

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  • CSTO Stages Military Exercises In Armenia (rferl.org)
  • Iran Attack Could Spark Caucasus War And Economic Trouble! (socioecohistory.wordpress.com)
  • Defense Ministry: Armenia didn’t specify dates for CSTO maneuvers (panarmenian.net)

Foreign Policy: Security and conflict in the Caucasus region

22 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Caucasus, European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense, Turkey

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Armenia, Azerbaijan, Best Defense, Caucasus, GAAT, Georgia, Mark Hertling, Middle East, Russia, Territorial dispute, Turkey, United States Army, US Army

U.S. Army Europe commander discusses current challenges and defense issues in the region with Azerbaijan’s Minister of Defense, Safar Abiyev (left). (Photo: Kelly Schloesser, U.S. Army Europe)

From Tom Rick’s blog The Best Defense, August 20, 2012:

By Lt. Gen. Mark P. Hertling, US Army, Best Defense guest columnist

The Caucasus — that historical causeway of conflict between Europe and the Middle East — remains a complicated tangle of security concerns. Ethnic tensions still affect long standing territorial disputes, internally displaced indigenous people align with or oppose powerful diasporas, and an increasing nouveau riche — an oil-fueled minority upper class — is growing in an area once known only for desperate poverty… (more) http://ow.ly/d8K0x

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  • Flashpoint Between Turkey and Iran – The Caucasus Corridor (intelloverwatch.com)
  • U.S. Army Europe Commander travels to Caucasus countries
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North Caucasus: Reports on Possible Azerbaijan ties to Israel

09 Monday Apr 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Caucasus, European News

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Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Iran, Israel

Reported ties between Azerbaijan and Israel have been making news lately. Today is no exception, with two related stories being posted.

World Politics Review has doubts about how ready Azerbaijan is to provide the use of bases to Israel.

http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/11815/azerbaijan-as-israels-anti-iran-staging-ground-a-tough-
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Azerbaijan as Israel’s Anti-Iran ‘Staging Ground’ a Tough Sell

As tensions over Iran’s nuclear program rise, assertions that Israel’s increasing closeness to Azerbaijan,
a predominantly Muslim state on Iran’s northern border, represents the emergence of an anti-Iran “tag team”
are gaining currency. But despite undoubtedly warming ties between the two countries, there is no
indication that Baku is in any hurry to sacrifice its national interests by participating in a conflict
that could possibly drag it into a regional conflagration.

Turkish site Zaman quotes an earlier Foreign Policy Magazine report in making the argument that the partnership sounds plausible. Azerbaijan denies the reports.

http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=276715

Uncertainty over Israeli presence on Azerbaijani airbases lingers

Information has surfaced that Israel has access to Azerbaijani airbases, a claim Azerbaijan vehemently
denied on March 29.  Access to these airbases would make it easier for Israel to strike the Islamic Republic of Iran, which
many say is seeking to develop nuclear technology. According to a report published by Foreign Policy on
March 29, Israel has gained access to airbases in southern Azerbaijan, bordering Iran.
Reacting to the news published in FP, Azerbaijan denied the allegations, calling them untrue. In an
interview with AFP, Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense spokesman Teymur Abdullayev said the claims seek to
“damage relations between Azerbaijan and Iran,” adding that “there will be no actions against Iran … from
the territory of Azerbaijan.”

 

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