Erickson claims in his various publications that the Armenian Genocide relocation of the eastern Ottoman Armenians was a result of a military decision process . On 21 September 2004 , Vahakn Dadrian published an article criticizing Erickson 's '' Ordered to Die . A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War '' , characterizing it as " methodologically contaminated " due to the source material ( Turkish military archives ) and Erickson 's relationship to that material . Erickson responded two years later due to being in Iraq , in which he labeled Dadrian 's allegations as " deliberate obfuscations , misquotes , and slanderous comments . " Erickson 's article on Ottoman military policy was also critiqued in an article published in 2014 in '' Genocide Studies International '' for an error concerning the Armenian volunteer units that fought with the Russian Army . Erickson claimed that they were made up entirely of Ottoman Armenian citizens who had crossed the border into Russia , a claim that is " flatly contradicted by many sources showing that the four volunteer regiments formed were composed primarily of Russian Armenians . " The claim is also contradicted by Erickson 's earlier 2001 book
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Edward J. Erickson