βIf fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fightβ - Sun Tzu
It was as though the timing could not have been better. Engaged in Poland and Finland against a multitude of enemies, Russia was currently weak, and the Shah of Persia was confident that he could win and thus pursued a surprise invasion of the Russian Caucasus.
Noteworthy, first of all, is that two months into the invasion, the Persian plans went immediately out of the window. The Persian plan A, as well as plan B, both of which had accounted for frequent and unfavorable direct engagement with the enemy and heavily defended fortifications, and the use of deception, looting and harassing, were discarded the second the Shah realised one small thing - there were neither Russians to fight, nor would there be any Russians to fight for a while. In fact, the vast majority of the Russian population of villages and towns near big cities had vanished. It was as though they had all been picked up, and relocated elsewhere for an indeterminate amount of time!
Whatβs more was that while it was originally the Persiansβ plan to lay waste to the countryside and deny any Russian armies the resources of their lands - it was the Persian armies that were denied the resources in the first place. Wells had been poisoned and any structure that would have provided cover from the cold at night, or the sun during daytime, were already destroyed when the Persians got there - luckily the Persians had devised sea and land routes to provide ample resources for their armies, including cattle.
First stop for the Persians was the coastal city of Baku, to which the way was painted red with the blood of the Persians, as male villagers armed with rudimentary rifles and well-planned ambushes, harass both the Persian soldiers, and the convoys leading to them.
βThatβs where they went! Kill them quickly!β shouted the Shah to his messengers, upon hearing the annoying news of such tactics, only to fall back onto his bed in his tent, with fever rising.
The initial battles against hit-and-run forces, in concert with the raids on supplies and convoys costing the Persian armies 500 regular and 700 irregular soldier casualties on the march to Baku. Once at Baku, with the surrounding of the city by both land and by sea, it is starved and bombarded into submission within weeks; the surviving garrison of 2,000 surrendering to the Persian armies. Sadly, with his illness, the Shah is not able to command his armies per
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I was asked by my professor on the the Russo-Persian Wars and I was asked to write about the consequences of it as well as the significance of the wars. I have been trying to find information of the wars but it was a very minor topic compared to the many I have seen.
Do you think if the war kicks off that it will go the way of either: A. The 1990 Gulf War B. The Yugoslav wars of the 90s Or C. Entirely different This is something Iβve been thinking about for a bit and if NATO does intervene it could be pretty interesting. I also doubt that nuclear weapons would be involved considering world leaders know the consequences of them. Just wanted to see what everyone thought
In other words, whatβs Russiaβs rationale as to why theyβre in the right in this war? And whatβs Ukraineβs rationale?
So what if in 1896 in Manila the Japanese warship the Kongo suffered a similar incident to what the Maine went through in 1898? Assuming Japan uses this as a pretext to go to war with Spain, would they win? If they do, how would it affect the Russo-Japanese war?
