Çalışmalar ve Anlamları

Year 2022, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 1 - 13, 30.04.2022

Edward J. Erickson

https://doi.org/10.52792/tws.1107882

Abstract

Prof. Erickson, Quantico, Virginia'daki Deniz Piyadeleri Üniversitesi Komuta ve Kurmay Koleji'nden askeri tarih profesörü olarak emekli oldu. Kısa bir süre Cortland, New York'taki New York Eyalet Üniversitesi'ndeki Clark Küresel Katılım Merkezi'nde ikamet eden bir bursiyer olarak görev yaptı. Prof. Erickson, emekli bir ABD Ordusu yarbaydır. İki Bronz Yıldız madalyası, Legion of Merit ve diğer birçok askeri ödülün sahibidir. Prof. Erickson, Birinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında Osmanlı Ordusu konusunda en önde gelen uzmanlardan biri olarak tanınmaktadır. Eserleri arasında Size Ölmeyi Emrediyorum; Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nda Osmanlı Ordusu; Büyük Hezimet, Balkan Harpleri’nde Osmanlı Ordusu; Gelibolu Osmanlı Harekâtı; Ottomans and Armenians, A Study in Counterinsurgency; Çanakkale Savaşı: Ateş Altında Komuta; and Palestine, the Ottoman Campaigns 1914-1918 gibi kitaplar yer almaktadır. Prof.Dr. Mesut Uyar’la birlikte Osmanlı Askeri Tarihi isimli kitabı da kaleme almıştır. Son kitabı yine Prof. Dr. Mesut Uyar ile birlikte yazdıkları Phase Line Attila, The Amphibious Campaign for Cyprus’dır.

Keywords

Askeri Tarih, Osmanlı ordusu, Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri

A Body of Work and Its Meaning

Abstract

Prof. Erickson retired as professor of military history at the Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia. He briefly served as a Scholar-in-Residence in the Clark Center for Global Engagement at the State University of New York at Cortland, New York. Prof. Erickson is a retired regular US Army lieutenant colonel. He is the recipient of two Bronze Star medals, the Legion of Merit, and numerous other military awards. Prof. Erickson is widely recognized as one of the foremost specialists on the Ottoman Army during the First World War. Among the numerous books he has written are Ordered to Die, A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War; Defeat in Detail, The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913; Gallipoli, The Ottoman Campaign; Ottomans and Armenians, A Study in Counterinsurgency; Gallipoli, Command under Fire; and Palestine, The Ottoman Campaigns 1914-1918. He is the co-author, with Prof. Mesut Uyar, of A Military History of the Ottomans, from Osman to Ataturk. His latest book co-authored by Prof. Mesut Uyar is titled Phase Line Attila, The Amphibious Campaign for Cyprus.

Keywords

Military histoy, Ottoman army, Turkish Armed Forces

References

• Erickson, Edward J., “The Ottoman Empire,” History in Dispute: The First World War, ed. Dr. Dennis Showalter, Detroit: St. Martins Press, 2002.
• Erickson, Edward J., “From Kirkilisse to The Great Offensive: Turkish Encirclement Operations 1912-1922,” Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 40, Number 1, January 2004.
• Erickson, Edward J. “Leadership and Organizational Architecture,” Uluslararası Liderlik Sempozyumu: Bildiriler, Ankara: Kara Harp Okulu Basım Evi, 2004.
• Erickson, Edward J., “Turkey as Regional Hegemon - 2014, Strategic Implications for the United States,” Turkish Studies, Volume 5, Number 3, (Autumn 2004).
• Erickson, Edward J., “The Eastern Question,” The Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914, eds. John Merriman & Jay Winter, New York: Scribners, 2006.
• Erickson, Edward J., Dünya Savaş'nda Osmanlı Ordusu (Çanakkale, Kutü’l-Amare ve Filistin Cephesi), Istanbul: Iş Bankası Kultur Yayınları, 2009.
• Erickson, Edward J., “Template for Destruction, The Congress of Berlin and the Evolution of Ottoman Counterinsurgency Practices,” The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Treaty of Berlin, eds. Peter Sluglett and Hakan Yavuz, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2011.
• Erickson, Edward J., Büyük Hezimet, Balkan Harpleri’nde Osmanlı Ordusu, Istanbul: Iş Bankası Kultur Yayınları, 2013.
• Erickson, Edward J., “In the Nick of Time: Transformation in the Ottoman Army, 1911,” Preliminary Moves, 1911, Canberra: Australian Army History Unit, 2012.
• Erickson, Edward J., “Lessons Learned from the Balkan Wars,” Lasting Socio-Political Impacts of the Balkan Wars, eds. Peter Sluglett and Hakan Yavuz, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2012.
• Erickson, Edward J., Gelibolu, Osmanlĭ Cephesi, Istanbul: Iş Bankası Kultur Yayınları, 2012.
• Erickson, Edward J., Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Büyük Komutanlar), Istanbul: Iş Bankası Kultur Yayınları, 2014.
• Erickson, Edward J., Osmanlılar ve Ermeniler, Bir İsyan ve Karşı Harekâtın Tarihi, Istanbul: Timaş Yayınları, 2015.
• Erickson, Edward J., Palestine, The Ottoman Campaigns of 1914-1918, (Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books, 2016.
• Erickson, Edward J., “The Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa, the SOE, and Gerasimov,” Derin Tarih Turkish Journal), June 2016.
• Erickson, Edward J., Çanakkale Savaşı, Ateş Altında Komuta, Istanbul: Iş Bankası Kultur Yayınları, 2019.
• Erickson, Edward J., “Decisive Battles in the Asia Minor Campaign” and “Conclusion,” Salvation and Catastrophe, The Greek-Turkish War 1919-1922, ed. Konstantinos Travlos, Lexington Books, 2020.
• Edward J. Erickson and Mesut Uyar, Phase Line Attila, The Amphibious Campaign for Cyprus, Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press, 2020.
• Erickson, Edward J., The Turkish War of Independence, A Military History, 1919-1923, Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishing, 2021.
• Erickson, Edward J., “The 44-Day War in Nagorno-Karabakh; Turkish Drone Success or Operational Art?” Military Review (On-Line Exclusive Edition), Army University Press, August 2021.
• Lorenz, F.M. and Erickson, Edward J., The Euphrates Triangle, Security Implications of the Southeast Anatolia Project, Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1999.
• Lorenz, F.M. and Erickson, Edward J., Strategic Water; Iraq and Security Planning in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin, Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press, 2013.
• Uyar, Mesut and Erickson, Edward J., Osmanlı Askeri Tarıhı, Istanbul: Iş Bankası Kultur Yayınları, 2014.