This is an unofficial, completely unauthorized English-language translation of a retrospective book on the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War that shattered the shaky but persistent balance of power between Armenia-Azerbaiijan-Türkiye-Russia and the myriad other global actors with a vested interest in stability within the Caucasus mountain range.

The editor of this book is Ruslan Pukhov, the founder and director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies — or CAST — the preeminent and most prominent Defense think-tank within the Russian Federation and the former Soviet-sphere. You can his… errr… CAST’s Twitter profile via this link [here]

A translation of the website blurb for Storm in the Caucasus is thus:

The book is dedicated to the 44-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh (September – November 2020). The work examines the main causes, course and consequences of the Armenian-Azerbaijani armed conflict for all parties involved. The authors of the study analyze both the direct military and military-technical aspects that influenced the outcome of the war, as well as the complex political relationships between key players in the South Caucasus region, including Russia and Turkey.

The publication is intended for specialists in the fields of military conflicts and international relations, regional experts, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the current military-political situation in the South Caucasus.

This English translation was created with an intent to introduce a broader audience to a suite of sophisticated analyses written by a mixture of Armenian, Russian and Azeri specialists of a perennial Western analytical blind-spot.

As a quick aside, given the limited ability of Russian think-tanks to effect lawsuits in the West at this current time, in lieu of doing that, I’d invite the CAST team to use this translation as a base framework for its own English-language translation.