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In “simple indicators,” Azerbaijan actually loses the information warfare against Armenia. Most of the articles covering Azerbaijan and the ‘existing conflict’ are of analytical nature, PhD of Political Science Asif Usulbaliyev writes for Echo.az.

Analysing Azerbaijan’s positions in the information warfare, the expert writes that the above-mentioned first refers to the respected scholars, whose opinion is heeded by both internal and external audience. 
As the Azerbaijani propagandists’ “abilities” regard, the author questions their professionalism, noting that an information warfare – a battle of strategists and analysts – “presupposes a necessity of strategic workouts and a conduct of a constant intellectual pressing,” something Azerbaijan lacks, according to the article.

“Here, the battle is conducted with arguments, reasoning, convictions and analytical logic rather than with facts (which can be easily made up),” Usulbaliyev writes.

Describing the mechanism of the propaganda conducted by Azerbaijan, the author highlights “political analysts’ banal comments,” “reasoning and argumentation, which repeat themselves,” becoming “predictable” for the Armenian side and granting them advantage.

“I must confess that the monotony and homogeneousness of everything going on around the process of the conflict settlement sometimes depresses, to put it mildly,” the expert writes.
He also makes a subtle hint on a remarkable peculiarity of how the Azerbaijani side conducts and perceives the ‘analytical warfare’ – the quantity is understood as an indicator of quality. Meanwhile, on the contrary, ‘the flow of the uncontrolled and uncoordinated information may result in an adverse effect.’

Summing up, the author notes that the information directed exceptionally at the internal public is of no use at least because such information is insipid in the context of international relations.

As for start of a ‘physical war,’ Usulbaliyev believes that a war cannot be considered an optimal method to resolve the conflict. Moreover, the analyst confesses that the physical war will not solve Azerbaijan’s vital problems in foreign policy and in the region.