Edward J Erickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4104540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward J Erickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward J |
| FAMILY NAME | Erickson |
| SIGNATURE | ERICKSON E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwich University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Strategic Water
The issue of freshwater scarcity has always been of vital concern to humans, and today it is increasingly characterized as a strategic factor in security planning. In the Euphrates-Tigris basin, water apportionment and management combined with climate change are increasingly emerging as threats to regional stability. The United States has a longterm strategic interest in the Euphrates-Tigris basin that, in turn, is directly linked to the national…
Phase Line Attila
Phase Line Attila describes the successful Turkish amphibious invasion of Cyprus, which culminated in the partitioning of the island of Cyprus into Turkish- and Greek-Cypriot zones. The invasion is an under-studied amphibious operation that occurred in the post–World War II era. The invasion was prompted by the increasing levels of violence between Turkish and Greek Cypriots, which led to the involvement of both Greece and Turkey in the island’s …
The Armenian Lost Cause and the Interpreted History of the American Civil War
Most Americans today believe slavery caused the American Civil War, but adherents of the Lost Cause narrative advance the idea that southerners fought the war for honor, state’s rights, and in defense of their homeland which was invaded by the northerners. A similar Armenian Lost Cause narrative has evolved which centers on the idea that 1.5 million Ottoman-Armenians were killed deliberately and systematically in 1915 during an Armenian Genocide.…
The Armenian Events of Adana in 1909
Dr Yucel Guclu is an associate professor of political history in Ankara, Turkey and an Advisor in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a well-known historian, who has written numerous boo
Strategic Water
After the final phase of drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq, it is important to do what we can to help maintain a level of stability and to look ahead to emerging security threats. Strategic Water: Iraq and Security Planning in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin by Frederick Lorenz and Edward J. Erickson makes an important contribution to this effort by taking a close look at a serious problem that is often neglected—the decline in freshwater availability a…
The Armenian Relocations and Ottoman National Security
Captain Larkin and the Turks
The voyages of the HMS Doris along the Mediterranean coast near Alexandretta (modern Iskenderun, Turkey) in the winter of 1914–15 had a dramatic effect on the Ottoman Empire that far exceeded the scope of the operations. This article uses British, German, and Turkish archival sources to focus on the ship's operations in the vicinity of Dörtyol and on the strategic impact these had on Ottoman perceptions of threats to the empire. The Doris figures…
Punishing the mad bomber
In late nineteenth-century France, several criminologists maintained that the perpetrators of the contemporary wave of anarchist terrorism were victims of mental disorders who deserved judicial leniency. French courts did not accept this theory, but instead declared the principal terrorists sane and fully responsible for their crimes and, based on this view, handed down severe sentences. Many criminologists accused the jurists of deliberately ign…
The Armenians and Ottoman Military Policy, 1915
Mainstream western scholarship maintains that the Armenian insurrection of 1915 was never an actual threat to the security of the Ottoman state in the First World War and that the relocation of the Armenians of eastern Anatolia was unnecessary. In truth, no study of the Armenian insurrection and its effect on Ottoman military policy has ever been conducted. This article examines the Ottoman army's lines of communications architecture and logistic…
Bayonets on Musa Dagh
This article examines the Ottoman military's escalatory response to violence and frames the Armenian insurrection of 1915 in the historical context of contemporary early twentieth-century counterinsurgency campaigns. A case study is presented, from a military historian's perspective, of counterinsurgency operations conducted by the Ottoman Army's 41st Infantry Division against Armenian insurgents on Musa Dağ (Musa Dagh) in an operational area sou…
Turkey as regional hegemon—2014
The idea of regional hegemonic states arising in the unbalanced multi polar post‐Cold War world is receiving increasing attention. Germany and China are states often mentioned in this context because they have the economic and demographic potential to dominate Europe and Eastern Asia.1 John J. Mearsheimer, “The Future of the American Pacifier,” Foreign Affairs, Vol.80, No.5 (Sept./Oct. 2001), pp.46–61. In the summer of 2000, Michael R. Hickok ide…
From Kirkilisse to the great offensive Turkish operational encirclement planning, 1912–22
The Ottoman army after the 1 880s was modelled on the German army in its doctrine, administration, and training. It is however almost unknown in the west exactly how the German art of war was realized in the minds and plans of the Ottoman officer corps. This article seeks to provide an understanding of the importance of the German art of war in Ottoman Army offensive operations by demonstrating its attachment to the doctrine of encirclement battl…
The Turkish official military histories of the First World War
(2003). The Turkish official military histories of the First World War: A bibliographic essay. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 190-198
Ordered to Die
Army on the Brink, 1908-1914 Plans The Early Offensives, November 1914-March 1915 Under Attack, April 1915-January 1916 High Tide, January 1916-December 1916 Strategic Pause, January 1917-December 1917 End of Empire, January 1918-November 1918 Conclusion Appendixes Bibliography Index
The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913
In The Balkan Wars 1912-1913, Richard Hall examines the origins, the enactment and the resolution of the Balkan Wars, during which the Ottoman Empire fought a Balkan coalition of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia. The Balkan Wars of 1912 - 1913 opened an era of conflict in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, which lasted until 1918, and which established a basis for problems which tormented Europe until the end of the century. Base…
Strength against Weakness
One more push
The historiography of the Gallipoli campaign suggests that the Turks were critically short of ammunition for the Dardanelles coastal defences in March 1915. This theme, established by Winston Churchill, became the basis for a widespread belief that the Royal Navy, after its failure to carry the Dardanelles on 18 March 1915, simply needed one more determined naval push to breakthrough the narrows. The presumed consequence was that the Ottoman Empi…
The Social Costs of the Discovery and Suppression of the Clandestine Distribution of Heroin
The Armenians and Ottoman Military Policy, 1915
Mainstream western scholarship maintains that the Armenian insurrection of 1915 was never an actual threat to the security of the Ottoman state in the First World War and that the relocation of the Armenians of eastern Anatolia was unnecessary. In truth, no study of the Armenian insurrection and its effect on Ottoman military policy has ever been conducted. This article examines the Ottoman army's lines of communications architecture and logistic…
The Social Costs of the Discovery and Suppression of the Clandestine Distribution of Heroin
Captain Larkin and the Turks
The voyages of the HMS Doris along the Mediterranean coast near Alexandretta (modern Iskenderun, Turkey) in the winter of 1914–15 had a dramatic effect on the Ottoman Empire that far exceeded the scope of the operations. This article uses British, German, and Turkish archival sources to focus on the ship's operations in the vicinity of Dörtyol and on the strategic impact these had on Ottoman perceptions of threats to the empire. The Doris figures…
Turkey as regional hegemon—2014
The idea of regional hegemonic states arising in the unbalanced multi polar post‐Cold War world is receiving increasing attention. Germany and China are states often mentioned in this context because they have the economic and demographic potential to dominate Europe and Eastern Asia.1 John J. Mearsheimer, “The Future of the American Pacifier,” Foreign Affairs, Vol.80, No.5 (Sept./Oct. 2001), pp.46–61. In the summer of 2000, Michael R. Hickok ide…
Bayonets on Musa Dagh
This article examines the Ottoman military's escalatory response to violence and frames the Armenian insurrection of 1915 in the historical context of contemporary early twentieth-century counterinsurgency campaigns. A case study is presented, from a military historian's perspective, of counterinsurgency operations conducted by the Ottoman Army's 41st Infantry Division against Armenian insurgents on Musa Dağ (Musa Dagh) in an operational area sou…
From Kirkilisse to the great offensive Turkish operational encirclement planning, 1912–22
The Ottoman army after the 1 880s was modelled on the German army in its doctrine, administration, and training. It is however almost unknown in the west exactly how the German art of war was realized in the minds and plans of the Ottoman officer corps. This article seeks to provide an understanding of the importance of the German art of war in Ottoman Army offensive operations by demonstrating its attachment to the doctrine of encirclement battl…
The Turkish official military histories of the First World War
(2003). The Turkish official military histories of the First World War: A bibliographic essay. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 190-198
The Social Costs of the Discovery and Suppression of the Clandestine Distribution of Heroin
Ordered to Die
Army on the Brink, 1908-1914 Plans The Early Offensives, November 1914-March 1915 Under Attack, April 1915-January 1916 High Tide, January 1916-December 1916 Strategic Pause, January 1917-December 1917 End of Empire, January 1918-November 1918 Conclusion Appendixes Bibliography Index
The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913
In The Balkan Wars 1912-1913, Richard Hall examines the origins, the enactment and the resolution of the Balkan Wars, during which the Ottoman Empire fought a Balkan coalition of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia. The Balkan Wars of 1912 - 1913 opened an era of conflict in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, which lasted until 1918, and which established a basis for problems which tormented Europe until the end of the century. Base…
Strength against Weakness
One more push
The historiography of the Gallipoli campaign suggests that the Turks were critically short of ammunition for the Dardanelles coastal defences in March 1915. This theme, established by Winston Churchill, became the basis for a widespread belief that the Royal Navy, after its failure to carry the Dardanelles on 18 March 1915, simply needed one more determined naval push to breakthrough the narrows. The presumed consequence was that the Ottoman Empi…
The Turkish official military histories of the First World War
(2003). The Turkish official military histories of the First World War: A bibliographic essay. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 190-198
Turkey as regional hegemon—2014
The idea of regional hegemonic states arising in the unbalanced multi polar post‐Cold War world is receiving increasing attention. Germany and China are states often mentioned in this context because they have the economic and demographic potential to dominate Europe and Eastern Asia.1 John J. Mearsheimer, “The Future of the American Pacifier,” Foreign Affairs, Vol.80, No.5 (Sept./Oct. 2001), pp.46–61. In the summer of 2000, Michael R. Hickok ide…
From Kirkilisse to the great offensive Turkish operational encirclement planning, 1912–22
The Ottoman army after the 1 880s was modelled on the German army in its doctrine, administration, and training. It is however almost unknown in the west exactly how the German art of war was realized in the minds and plans of the Ottoman officer corps. This article seeks to provide an understanding of the importance of the German art of war in Ottoman Army offensive operations by demonstrating its attachment to the doctrine of encirclement battl…
Bayonets on Musa Dagh
This article examines the Ottoman military's escalatory response to violence and frames the Armenian insurrection of 1915 in the historical context of contemporary early twentieth-century counterinsurgency campaigns. A case study is presented, from a military historian's perspective, of counterinsurgency operations conducted by the Ottoman Army's 41st Infantry Division against Armenian insurgents on Musa Dağ (Musa Dagh) in an operational area sou…
Punishing the mad bomber
In late nineteenth-century France, several criminologists maintained that the perpetrators of the contemporary wave of anarchist terrorism were victims of mental disorders who deserved judicial leniency. French courts did not accept this theory, but instead declared the principal terrorists sane and fully responsible for their crimes and, based on this view, handed down severe sentences. Many criminologists accused the jurists of deliberately ign…
The Armenians and Ottoman Military Policy, 1915
Mainstream western scholarship maintains that the Armenian insurrection of 1915 was never an actual threat to the security of the Ottoman state in the First World War and that the relocation of the Armenians of eastern Anatolia was unnecessary. In truth, no study of the Armenian insurrection and its effect on Ottoman military policy has ever been conducted. This article examines the Ottoman army's lines of communications architecture and logistic…
Captain Larkin and the Turks
The voyages of the HMS Doris along the Mediterranean coast near Alexandretta (modern Iskenderun, Turkey) in the winter of 1914–15 had a dramatic effect on the Ottoman Empire that far exceeded the scope of the operations. This article uses British, German, and Turkish archival sources to focus on the ship's operations in the vicinity of Dörtyol and on the strategic impact these had on Ottoman perceptions of threats to the empire. The Doris figures…
The Armenian Relocations and Ottoman National Security
Strategic Water
After the final phase of drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq, it is important to do what we can to help maintain a level of stability and to look ahead to emerging security threats. Strategic Water: Iraq and Security Planning in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin by Frederick Lorenz and Edward J. Erickson makes an important contribution to this effort by taking a close look at a serious problem that is often neglected—the decline in freshwater availability a…
The Armenian Events of Adana in 1909
Dr Yucel Guclu is an associate professor of political history in Ankara, Turkey and an Advisor in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a well-known historian, who has written numerous boo
The Armenian Lost Cause and the Interpreted History of the American Civil War
Most Americans today believe slavery caused the American Civil War, but adherents of the Lost Cause narrative advance the idea that southerners fought the war for honor, state’s rights, and in defense of their homeland which was invaded by the northerners. A similar Armenian Lost Cause narrative has evolved which centers on the idea that 1.5 million Ottoman-Armenians were killed deliberately and systematically in 1915 during an Armenian Genocide.…
Phase Line Attila
Phase Line Attila describes the successful Turkish amphibious invasion of Cyprus, which culminated in the partitioning of the island of Cyprus into Turkish- and Greek-Cypriot zones. The invasion is an under-studied amphibious operation that occurred in the post–World War II era. The invasion was prompted by the increasing levels of violence between Turkish and Greek Cypriots, which led to the involvement of both Greece and Turkey in the island’s …
Strategic Water
The issue of freshwater scarcity has always been of vital concern to humans, and today it is increasingly characterized as a strategic factor in security planning. In the Euphrates-Tigris basin, water apportionment and management combined with climate change are increasingly emerging as threats to regional stability. The United States has a longterm strategic interest in the Euphrates-Tigris basin that, in turn, is directly linked to the national…
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