Gurgen Daribaltayan
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Colonel-General Gurgen Daribaltayan was a commander at the Battle of Shusha
, a battle to liberate the city from the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, often called the Marriage in the Highlands. He is credited with devising a strategy to assault the strongly fortified town of Shusha
using diversionary attacks against adjacent villages to draw out the defenders of the down while the command of troops, Arkady "Komandos" Ter-Tatevosyan, encircled the town and cut off reinforcements. His strategy is generally considered impossible, or at least implausible, as he was originally outnumbered. General military tactics suggest a force of three times the defender's size to successfully storm and win.
Battle of Shusha
The Capture of Shusha , the Liberation of Shushi; Azeri: Şuşanın işğalı, the Occupation of Shusha) was the first significant military victory by Armenian forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave during the Nagorno-Karabakh War...
, a battle to liberate the city from the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, often called the Marriage in the Highlands. He is credited with devising a strategy to assault the strongly fortified town of Shusha
Shusha
Shusha , also known as Shushi is a town in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus. It has been under the control of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since its capture in 1992 during the Nagorno-Karabakh War...
using diversionary attacks against adjacent villages to draw out the defenders of the down while the command of troops, Arkady "Komandos" Ter-Tatevosyan, encircled the town and cut off reinforcements. His strategy is generally considered impossible, or at least implausible, as he was originally outnumbered. General military tactics suggest a force of three times the defender's size to successfully storm and win.