The Role of the Turkish Military in the Destruction of Ottoman Armenians: A Study in Historical Continuities

A 1992 article by Vahakn N. Dadrian examining the role of the Ottoman/Turkish military in the destruction of Ottoman Armenians through the lens of historical continuities.

Published in the Journal of Political & Military Sociology, this scholarly article analyses the institutional role of the Ottoman/Turkish military in violence against Ottoman Armenians, arguing for historical continuities. Its link to the collection is indirect, running through the wider literature on Ottoman military structures and Turkish-Armenian conflict in the 1918 Caucasus rather than the Army of Islam's campaign itself. The characterisations and interpretations are the author's own; the topic is contested and the source belongs to the Armenian historiographical tradition.