 Military history of the Republic of Artsakh

The Military history of the Republic of Artsakh contains information about the history of military actions or events done by or in the Republic of Artsakh.The Artsakh Defense Army (sometimes also known as Artsakh Self-Defense Army) was officially established on May 9, 1992 as the formal defense force of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh, uniting previously disorganized self-defense units which were formed in the early 1990s in order to protect the ethnic Armenian population of Artsakh from the attacks by the military of the Soviet and Azerbaijani forces.