Original: The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Defense Army is the formal defense force of the unrecognized but de-facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).
Simplified: The Nagorno-Karabakh (NKR) Defense Army was made on May 9, 1992 as the formal defense force of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, made up of Armenians.