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7 Seconds to Die

A Military Analysis of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Future of Warfighting

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7 Seconds to Die

By: John Antal, Alexander Kott - foreword
Narrated by: Jim Seybert
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The first full analysis of the second Nagorno-Karabakh war—the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems.

The second Nagorno-Karabakh war—fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan between September 24 and November 10, 2020—was the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems.

This forty-four-day war resulted in a decisive military victory for Azerbaijan. Armenia was outfought, outnumbered, and outspent and lost even though they controlled the high ground in a mountainous region that favored traditional defense. Azerbaijan's alliance with Turkey, and close technological support from Israel, strategically isolated Armenia. In addition, Turkey's posturing influenced the Russians not to intervene to support Armenia. That Azerbaijan attacked Armenia during the pandemic was an additional factor. The fact that Azerbaijan won the war is not extraordinary, considering the correlation of forces arrayed against Armenia.

What is exceptional is that this was the first modern war primarily decided by unmanned weapons. In this war the Turkish-made BAYRAKTAR TB2 Unmanned Air Combat Vehicle (UCAV) and the Israeli-made HAROP Loitering Munition (LM) dominated the fighting and provided Azerbaijan with a war-winning advantage.

©2022 John Antal (P)2022 Tantor 21st Century Military Modern Wars & Conflicts Weapons Weapons & Warfare War Middle East Air Force
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Short section on the war but mostly a description of weapons, past, present and future and their uses in modern warfare.

The military jargon and acronyms

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The background for the conflct and military lessons were informative. Turkey won the war for Azerbijan and interfered as a NATO member without consequence. Russia was impotent based on this recap.

Military tactic summary for the 2nd Azerbijan and Armenia conflict

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thus wasn't terribly insightful or useful. the idea that drone warfare and ai enabled kill webs is not new

the narrows pronunciation of basic terms like iads or ooda loops was sadly comical

mediocre

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I enjoyed this book. It is relevant and current as of this review. It is an interesting look at a very complex conflict. Well researched and well laid out.

This is a well thought out and researched book

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The performance was awful containing many mispronunciations of common Armenian names. And the title of the book should have been “A military analysis OF THE WEAPONS USED in the Second Nagorno Karabakh war. As the book shows little interest in the history of the war itself.

This book is mistitled

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Heavy on the explanations of various facets of modern technology, but shallow on details for how they were entertained to the conduct of the war. Strong start, but weak finish that became repetitive.

Repetitive

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