“OUR VICTORIES”
The viability of any civilization, alongside with other factors, is determined by the high level of the military thought and, of course, by the will and the ability to fight and to win. In this context the history of Armenian civilization is not an exception; it is also the continuous integrity of military art and victories. Meanwhile, it should be accepted that in spite of the valuable historical evidences and separate contemporary researches, the systematized analytical history of our victories had not been covered and presented to the Armenian and international community. In our opinion, this is the omission not only from the point of view of Armenian historiography. Providing the community with the information on Armenian military art will inevitably boost the formation of large-minded and victorious identity of contemporary Armeniancy free of psychological complexes. Mainly this circumstances and problems compelled us to start on this project entitled “Our victories”.
Within the framework of that project “Our victories” four-volume edition is publishing. It is going to be a background for the creation of the Armenian military art encyclopedia. It is intended to translate those publications in order to present our military art to foreign language speaking community. There is also an intention to accept those works as a basis for the creation of different digital and electronic formats.
The first volume, which is a result of triennial work of the writing staff, covers the historical period from the 3rd millennium BC till the 3rd century AC. In the near future the second volume of “Our victories” will be published. It will be devoted to the military developments of the 4th-10th centuries. At the same time the third (11th-17th centuries) and forth volumes are in preparation. Our glorious and convincing victories in war in Artsakh will also be presented in the last volume.
It is obvious that the omissions in such a large-scale project are inevitable. This mainly concerns the period of the 3rd and the 2nd millenniums where we have a certain lack of evidences. Anyway we are expecting both remarks and assistance in the implementation of the project.
The book “Our victories” can be purchased in “Book world” (address: 20 Mashtots Ave. Yerevan) and “Noyan Tapan” (Hanrapetutyan Square, Government House 2) bookstores.
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