How do we explain Azerbaijan"s stunning strategic victory in the fall of 2020 in what has come to be called the 44-Day War, or the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War? Some regional specialists simply observed, "The bigger and better equipped Azerbaijani army, backed by Turkey, over- whelmed the smaller and obsolescent Armenian force."1 Another view is that Turkey "sent experienced military advisors to ... direct Baku"s War Machine."2 However, the most pervasive and widely held explanation today ...
