Foreign Policy op-ed: Azerbaijan’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh served as a testing ground for Israel’s military tactics

Published: 2025-11-27 08:53

In an article for the U.S. magazine Foreign Policy, Henry Theriault, former president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and Alex Galitsky, policy director of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) in Washington, write: "Indeed, Azerbaijan’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh served as a testing ground for the weapons, tactics, and methods that Israel later deployed against Gaza’s Palestinians. Between 2016 and 2020, Israel accounted for nearly 70 percent of Azerbaijan’s arms imports... Azerbaijan, in turn, supplies Israel with 40 percent of its oil imports, making it an indispensable energy partner. That Azerbaijan could be considered for a role in Gaza despite all this lays bare the distorted logic behind Trump’s approach to conflict resolution."

By Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News