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      Odbrambena vojska Artsaške Republike (Արցախի Հանրապետության պաշտպանության բանակ, Artsakhi Hanrapetut’yan pashtpanut’yan banak) je formalna odbrambena snaga uglavnom nepriznate Republike Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Osnovana 1992. godine, ujedinila je prije neorganizirane samoodbrambene jedinice, koje su nastale uglavnom 1990-tih sa ciljem zaštite etničkih Armenaca od napada Sovjetskih i Azerbejdžanskih snaga. Odbrambena vojska Gorskog Karabaha trenutno ima oko 20.000 dobro obučenih i opremljenih oficira i vjnika koji održavaju konstantno stanje pripravnosti, provodeći puno ozbiljniju borbenu obuku i operativne vježbe nego bilo koja bivša vojska Sovjetskog Saveza.

      The Artsakh Republic Defense Army (Արցախի Հանրապետության պաշտպանության բանակ, Artsakhi Hanrapetut’yan pashtpanut’yan banak) is the formal defense force of the largely unrecognized Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Established in 1992, it united previously disorganized self-defense units which were formed in the early 1990s with the avowed goal of protecting the ethnic Armenian population of Artsakh from the attacks by the Soviet and Azerbaijani armed forces. The Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army is currently composed of around 20,000 well-trained and equipped officers and soldiers and maintains a "constant state of readiness, undergoing more serious combat training and operational exercises than any other former Soviet army.