Of course, when enemies are already attacking, one cannot afford to ask too many questions.

That was followed by a brazen attack on a naval base in Karachi, in which some very expensive equipment, including aircraft, was destroyed.

Of course, when enemies are already attacking, one cannot afford to ask too many questions. But when enemies are merely threatening, it is better first to assert legitimacy, and thus acquire some credibility at home and abroad.

In the immediate aftermath of the October War of 1973, the Arab world rejoiced because the myth of Israeli invincibility had been shattered by Egypt s crossing of the Suez Canal and the Syrian offensive that swept across the Golan Heights.

Taking advantage of the conditions at the end of the 1980s, the Armenian nationalists first completed the forcible deportation of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis who were the primordial inhabitants of the territory of the Republic of Armenia, and then launched an open military aggression against Azerbaijan in order to carry out their territorial claims against our country.