Editing Armed Forces of Armenia (section)

=== 1988–1992 ===
{{Main|Armenian volunteer units during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War}}
The modern Armenian military entered its first stage at the beginning of the [[Nagorno-Karabakh conflict]], when Armenian militias were formed to combat [[Azerbaijan]]i units in Artsakh.<ref name="MinDef">Ministry of Defense of Armenia. [http://www.mil.am/eng/index.php?page=25 General History of the Armenian Army] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927012151/http://www.mil.am/eng/index.php?page=25|date=2007-09-27}}. Retrieved 31 January 2006.</ref> On 20 September 1990, the first military unit was created, the Yerevan Special Regiment, with the first oath being held in the Republican Assembly Point and was attended by the first President of Armenia [[Levon Ter-Petrosyan]], Prime Minister [[Vazgen Manukyan]], and defence minister [[Vazgen Sargsyan]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=LLC|first=Ayb Solutions|title=LEGEND OF THE SPECIAL REGIMENT|url=http://www.hayzinvor.am/en/33854.html|access-date=2020-05-15|website=Hay Zinvor|language=en}}</ref> Five battalions were also formed in Ararat, Goris, Vardenis, Ijan and Meghri. In 1991, by the decision of the government, the State Committee of Defense under the Council of Ministers, which facilitated the task of coordinating the defense operations of Armenia, becoming the basis on which the Ministry of Defense was to be established later on.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=hraparak|date=2015-01-28|title=Հայկական բանակը 23 տարեկան է․ Պատմական ակնարկ|url=https://hraparak.am/post/591fa9ffe3d84d0d37fd220e|access-date=2021-03-27|website=ՀՐԱՊԱՐԱԿ|language=hy-AM}}</ref>