Geopolitics
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The following letters of Lord Esher in 1906 reveal his thoughts about the problems faced as he began to prepare England for the Great War that he and his colleagues in the Committee of Imperial Defence felt would have to be waged on Germany. They reveal that the Great War was seen as inevitable, because…
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Lord Esher had much to do with the formation of the Committee of Imperial Defence, the body which organised the planning of the Great War on Germany. In September 1903 the Prime Minister offered Esher the position of War Minister, which he declined. There is a series of correspondence from this time between Esher and…
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The most widely praised book of the centenary of the Great War is Christopher Clark’s ‘Sleepwalkers’. The gist of it, as the title suggests, is that the Great War was sleepwalked into. Not in England it wasn’t. It was planned for about a decade. There is ample evidence to prove this from the writings and…
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There were 3 outstanding people of consequence within the British State in 1914. There was the statesman, Arthur Balfour. There was the doer at the heart of the State, Lord Maurice Hankey. And there was Lord Esher, who thought for Britain. Lord Esher is a mysterious figure often hidden because he refused some of the…
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When: Friday 3 July 2015, 7.30 pm Where: Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre, Donegall Street (next door from The John Hewitt) The Armenian Insurrection and the Great War – A Cautionary Tale of Betrayal The Great Calamity that engulfed the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 has been narrowed down to a single question: Was…
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How did Britain’s “Armenian Question” of the 1870s become what it did in 1915? Was it simply a diabolical genocidal plan of the Turks that the Armenians be eradicated from eastern Anatolia? Or were there a series of actions instigated by external forces which altered things in such a way that the tragedy of 1915…
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It was the Revolution in British Foreign Policy conducted by Sir Edward Grey and the Liberal Imperialists between 1906 and 1914 that made the Great War. The single most important political event that made what happened in Eastern Anatolia in 1915 a possibility was the 1907 agreement between England and Russia that prepared the way…
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Pope Francis, on April 12th at St. Peter’s Basilica, in the presence of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, and His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX, Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics, said the following: “Dear Armenian Brothers and Sisters,
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The present writer was in attendance at a conference given at Collins Barracks, Dublin, on Saturday 13th November 2010 entitled ‘Ireland and World War One.’ With the centenary of the Gallipoli disaster fast approaching it is worth remembering that event for the insights it brought to light about this event. The main speakers were Altay…
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The Great Calamity that engulfed the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 has been narrowed down to a single question: Was the Young Turk Government in Istanbul guilty of Genocide? But the tragedy of the deaths of great numbers of Armenians, Turks and Kurds is inexplicable if confined solely to this. And it obscures…
