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The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: 1860s to 1915

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 March 2026

This entry was posted in History, Turkey and tagged 1856 Paris Treaty, 1871 London Declaration, 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Abraham Hartunian, Aleksandr Adamov, Aleksandr Olferiev, Alexander A. Adamov, Allied Landing at Gallipoli, Andranik, Andranik Ozanian, ARA, Aram Manukian, Aram Turabian, ARF, Armen Garo, Armenakan Party, Armenian genocide, Armenian Narodniks, Armenian national movement, Armenian Patriarchate, Armenian Provinces, Armenian Question, Armenian Republic, Armenian Revolutionary Army, Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Armenian revolutionary movement, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, Armenian volunteers, Armenians, Arshak Gavafian, ASALA, Balkan Wars, Battle of Sarikamish, Bedros Kapamajian, Bitlis uprising, Boghos Nubar, Bolshevik coup, Britain, Caliph, caliphate, Capitulations, Captain Molyneux-Seel, Caucasus Campaign, Cemal Pasha, Christendom, Christians, Civil War, Clarence Ussher, Commander Vartan, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Congress of Berlin, Constantinople, Count Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov, counter-insurgency, Crimean War, CUP, Cyrus Hamlin, Dardanelles Strait, Dashnaks, Defence of Van, Djemal Pasha, Drastamat Kanayan, dreadnought, Dro, Enlightenment, Enver Pasha, Erzurum, fedayi, First World War, France, French Revolution, Friedrich Posselt, Gallipoli Campaign, Garegin Nzhdeh, Garegin Pastermadjian, General Andranik, Germany, Great Eastern Crisis, Great War, Greek War of Independence, Grigor Avsharian, Grigory Chernozubov, guerrilla warfare, guerrillas, Hamazasp Srvandztyan, Hay Heghapokhakan Dashnaktsutyun, Henry Morgenthau, Herbert Henry Asquith, Holocaust, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, Hrayr Dzhoghk, Hunchaks, Hungarian uprising, Ian M. Smith, ideology, Imperial Russia, IMRO, insurgency, Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, Iran, Islam, JCAG, jihad, jizya, Joseph Pomiankowski, Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kapriel Papazian, Kapriel S. Papazian, Keri, Kevork Chavush, Khoren Ashekian, Kurdish tribes, Kurdistan, Kurds, liberalism, Marxism, Mekertich Portukalian, Mikael Seryan, Mikayel Papadjanian, Mikayel Varandian, Moushegh Seropian, Muhacir, Mullah Selim, Muslims, Narodniki, national liberation movement, nationalism, Nikolai Hartwig, Nikolai Yudenich, Otto Liman von Sanders, Ottoman Armenia, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Third Army, Pandukht, Persia, politics, Posselt Pascha, propaganda, Protestant, provocation strategy, Pyotr Kalitin, Rafael de Nogales, Ramgavar Party, Robert W. Graves, Roman Catholics, Russia, Sargis Mehrabyan, Sasun rebellion, sectarianism, Selim Efendi al-Hizani, Serbia, Sergey Sazonov, Sir Philip Currie, Six Provinces, Six Vilayets, Social Democratic Hunchakian Party, socialism, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, Special Organisation, Stanley E. Kerr, strategy of provocation, Sublime Porte, Sultan, Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Tehcir Law, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa, Treaty of Berlin, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsardom, Turkey, Turkish Armenia, United States, Van rebellion, Wilhelm Souchon, Winston Churchill, Yeniköy Treaty, Young Turk Revolution, Young Turks, Zeytun rebellion on March 31, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The “Whites” in the Russian Civil War Were Not Monarchists

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 February 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged 1905 Revolution, Admiral Kolchak, Aleksandr Kolchak, Alexander Kerensky, Alexander Kolchak, Alexey Kaledin, Allies, Antisemitism, Anton Denikin, Armed Forces of South Russia, Ataman, Baltics, Black Army, Black Baron, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolsheviks, Bourbons, Britain, Central Powers, Communism, communists, Constituent Assembly, Constitutional Democrats, Cossacks, Czechoslovak Legion, David Lloyd George, democracy, Dimitry Lehovich, Directory, Dobrarmiya, Dobrovolcheskaya Armiya, Don Cossack Host, Don Cossacks, Don Host, Entente, Estonia, ethnic nationalists, ethno-nationalists, Evan Mawdsley, Finland, Finns, First World War, France, General Alfred Knox, Germany, Great War, Hetman, Ice March, ideology, Imperial Russia, Jews, Kadets, Kazakhstan, Kuban, Lavr Kornilov, liberal democrat, liberalism, liberals, Mensheviks, Mikhail Alekseev, Mikhail Alekseyev, Mikhail Rodzianko, Mitteleuropa, monarchism, monarchists, Napoleon Bonaparte, nationalism, nepredreshenchestvo, Nikolai Iudenich, Nikolai Yudenich, non-predetermination, Northwestern Army, Octobrist Party, Octobrists, oriyentatsiya, patriotism, Pavlo Skoropadsky, Peter Kenez, Peter Krasnov, Peter Wrangel, politics, propaganda, Provisional All-Russian Government, Provisional Government, Provisional Siberian Government, Pyotr Krasnov, Pyotr Wrangel, Randstaatenpolitik, Reds, Republic, republicanism, Richard Pipes, Russia, Russian Civil War, separatists, Siberia, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Sovdepia, SRs, Symon Petliura, terrorism, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsardom, Tsarism, Union of 17 October, Vladimir Lenin, Volunteer Army, White Armies, White Guards, White Movement, Whites, Woodrow Wilson on February 12, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Can America’s Strikes on Islamic State in Nigeria Lead to a Serious Policy?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 December 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy and tagged Africa, AFRICOM, Borno State, Cameroon, Christianity, France, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, jihadism, Nigeria, Russia, sectarianism, terrorism, West Africa on December 26, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Wants to Extend its War Against Christians in Africa to Europe

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 August 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Africa, Al-Andalus, al-Naba, al-wala wal-bara, Antisemitism, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Burkina Faso, Cabo Delgado, Christianity, Christians, Crusades, democracy, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Europe, Former Mandate Palestine, France, Iberia, ideology, IEDs, ISCAP, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic State Central African Province, Islamic State West Africa Province, Islamists, Israel, ISWAP, Jesus, jihadism, jihadists, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, media, messaging, Mozambique, Muslim Spain, Niger, Nigeria, PKK, Portugal, propaganda, Qur’an, religion, Saudi Arabia, SDF, sectarianism, shari’a, Spain, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, terrorism, United States, Wilayat al-Sahel, Wilayat al-Sham, Wilayat Gharb Ifriqiya, Wilayat Mozambique, Wilayat Wasat Ifriqiya on August 14, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Flaws in the Israel-Hizballah Ceasefire

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 November 2024

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, France, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Joe Biden, LAF, Lebanese Armed Forces, Lebanon, UNIFIL, United Nations, United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, United States on November 27, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Book Review: ‘Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955’

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 September 2024

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This entry was posted in Book Review, History and tagged Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Alfredo Stroessner, Antisemitism, Arab States, Arabs, Argentina, art, Augusto Pinochet, Auschwitz, Auschwitz Trials, Baader-Meinhof Gang, blood libel, Brazil, Britain, Cavaliers, Chile, Colonia Dignidad, Communism, concentration camps, Croatia, cult, death camps, East Germany, Ecuador, English Civil Wars, fascism, Final Solution, First World War, France, Fritz Bauer, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Glorious Revolution, Great War, Hannah Arendt, Hans Globke, Hans Habe, Harald Jähner, Heinrich Himmler, Henri Nannen, Holocaust, Indemnity and Oblivion Act, Israel, Jacobites, Jews, Joseph Mengele, Juan Perón, Kielce pogrom, Konrad Adenauer, Kristallnacht, Kurt Kiesinger, Latin America, MOSSAD, National Socialism, Nazi Party, Nazis, Nazism, NSDAP, Nuremberg Laws, Nuremberg Race Laws, Nuremberg Trials, Paraguay, pogroms, Poland, propaganda, public opinion, Puritans, Red Army, Red Army Faction, Roundheads, Rwanda, Schutzstaffel, Second World War, Shoah, Social Democratic Party, Soviet Union, SPD, Stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung, Third Reich, Uruguay, Ustasha, Ustaše, victimhood, Waffen-SS, Walter Rauff, Walter Scheel, Walter von Molo, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Weimar Republic, Werewolf, West Germany, Willy Brandt, Wolfgang Hedler on September 5, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Soviet Union Won the Second World War

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 May 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolf Hitler, agitprop, Anti-COMINTERN Pact, Antisemitism, Axis, Baltics, BBC, Blitzkrieg, Britain, British Broadcasting Corporation, Cairo Conference, Cambridge spies, capitalism, Casablanca Conference, CCP, Charles Robertson, Cheka, Chekists, Chetniks, Chiang Kai-shek, China, Chinese Communist Party, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, collaborators, collectivisation, Communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Party USA, CPUSA, Croats, D-Day, democracy, Draža Mihailović, espionage, FDR, Finland, Fitzroy Maclean, France, Frank Coe, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Georgi Dimitrov, Germany, Great Fatherland War, Great Patriotic War, Great Terror, GULAG, Guy Burgess, Harry Dexter White, Harry Hopkins, Harry Truman, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holocaust, Imperialism, industrialisation, Intelligence, Iron Curtain, Ivan Yeaton, James Klugmann, Japan, Joseph E. Davies, Joseph Stalin, Josip Broz Tito, Jugoslavija, Katyn massacre, KGB, Korean War, Kuomintang, Lend-Lease, Leon Trotsky, Lev Mekhlis, Loy Henderson, Magnificent Five, Mao Zedong, Maxim Litvinov, MI6, militant atheism, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Munich Agreement, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazism, New Deal, NKVD, Operation BARBAROSSA, Operation OVERLORD, Operation PIKE, Partisans, Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Poland, Potsdam Conference, propaganda, PURKKA, Ray Atherton, Red Army, Richard Sorge, Robert F. Kelley, Rudolf Hess, Sean McMeekin, Second World War, Serbia, Shoah, show trials, SIS, slaves, Solomon Adler, Soviet Empire, Soviet Union, Spanish civil war, Special Operations Executive, spies, Stalin’s War, Suvorov hypothesis, Suvorov thesis, Tehran Conference, totalitarianism, Truman Doctrine, Ukraine, ULTRA secret, United States, VENONA, Viktor Suvorov, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Potemkin, Vladimir Rezun, Vozhd, Vyacheslav Molotov, Walter Duranty, Warsaw Uprising, Winston Churchill, Winter War, Yalta Conference, Yezhovshchina, Yugoslavia on May 31, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Recreation of Israel, War, and Survival

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 May 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Abdul Rahman Azzam, Adolf Hitler, Alec Kirkbride, Alfred Dreyfus, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arab Higher Committee, Arab League, Arab Liberation Army, Arab-Israeli War, Armenian genocide, Army of Holy War, Army of Sacred War, Arthur Garrels, Ba’ath Party, Balfour Declaration, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Battle of Armageddon, Battle of Megiddo, Benny Morris, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Britain, British Empire, Buddhism, caliphate, Chaim Weizmann, Christendom, Christianity, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Constantin Zureiq, Crusaders, CUP, Cybele, Czechoslovakia, David Ben-Gurion, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Deir Yassin massacre, Der Judenstaat, Djemal Pasha, Edmund Allenby, Egypt, Emperor Hadrian, Enlightenment, espionage, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, First World War, François Georges-Picot, France, French Revolution, Gaza Strip, genocide, Germany, Golda Meir, Great War, Greeks, H.H. Asquith, Hasan Salama, Hasan Salameh, Hassan Salama, Hassan Salameh, Herbert Asquith, Hindu nationalism, Hinduism, Hindutva, Holocaust, Holy Land, Holy War Army, Husayn bin Ali, Ibn Saud, IDF, India, Ioudaismos, Iraq, Iron Wall, Islamism, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Israeli War of Independence, Jamal al-Husayni, Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqadas, Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jewish State, Jewish Temple, Jews, jihad, Jordan, Judaism, Kaiser, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Land of Israel, League of Nations, Lebanon, Lydda, Maccabees, Mahmud al-Nuqrashi, Mandate Palestine, Mark Sykes, Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim, Moshe Sharett, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nakba Day, Nazis, Nazism, Neturei Karta, New Historians, Nicholas II, Operation ASSAF, Operation HIRAM, Operation HOREV, Operation SHMONE, Operation UVDA, Operation YOAV, Ottoman Empire, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, Passover, Peel Commission, Plan D, PLO, pogroms, Protestantism, Raj, Ramla, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, religion, right of return, Roman Catholicism, Romans, Russian Civil War, Russian Empire, Russian Orthodox Church, Sacred Jihad Army, Sacred War Army, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Second World War, secularism, Shukri al-Quwatli, Sir John Glubb, Soviet Union, Sykes-Picot Agreement, Sykes-Picot Treaty, Syria, Ten Days Battles, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodor Herzl, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Tsar, Tsardom, Turkey, United Nations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, United States, UNRWA, Vendée, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Wahhabism, Warren Austin, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Yiddish, Yishuv, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Zionism on May 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Petrov Affair: Soviet Spies and Australian Reaction in the Early Cold War

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 April 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged A.G. Vislykh, Albert Grundeman, Alger Hiss, Allan Dalziel, apartheid, ASIO, ASIS, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Australian Communist Party, Australian Labor Party, Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, B. A. Santamaria, Baltics, Ben Chifley, Bolshevik Revolution, Cambridge Five, Cambridge spies, Canada, Captive Nations, Charles Spry, China, CIA, Clement Attlee, Cold War, Committee of Information, Communism, Communist Control Act, Communist Party United States of America, corruption, CPUSA, DIABOLO, Donald Maclean, Dwight Eisenhower, E.V. Kovalenok, Ethel Rosenberg, Evdokia Kartseva, FBI, Fergan O’Sullivan, Five Eyes, France, Frankin Delano Roosevelt, Genrikh Yagoda, Geoffrey Yeend, Georgy Malenkov, Gough Whitlam, Great Terror, Greece, GRIGORII, GRU, Guy Burgess, H.C. Beckett, Henry Kerby, Herbert Evatt, Igor Gouzenko, Illegals, Imperial Japan, Imperialism, Intelligence, Jews, John Curtin, Joseph Davies, Joseph Stalin, journalists, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, KI, Kim Philby, Konstantin Volkov, Korean War, Lavrentiy Beria, Legals, Liberal Party, Liberal-National Coalition, Lydia Mokras, Magnificent Five, Marxism, McCarthyism, MGB, MI5, MI6, Michael Bialoguski, mole, National Government, Nazis, Nazism, New Zealand, Nikolai Bukharin, Nikolai Generalov, Nikolai Khokhlov, Nikolai Lifanov, NKVD, Operation CABIN 12, Philip Kislitsyn, Poland, Pyotr Prudnikov, Red Army, Red China, Red Scare, rezident, Rezidentura, Robert Manne, Robert Menzies, Roman Krivosh, Ron Richards, Rose-Marie Oilier, Royal Commission on Espionage, Rupert Lockwood, Russian Revolution, Second World War, secret police, SIGINT, signals intelligence, SIS, Smith Act, South Africa, Soviet Union, spies, Sydney Harbour, Sydney Morning Herald, TASS, The Petrov Affair, totalitarianism, treason, Ukraine, Victor Kravchenko, Vladimir Petrov, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Vyacheslav Molotov, Whittaker Chambers, Winston Churchill, Yezhovshchina, Yuriy Rastvorov, Zinoviev Letter on April 8, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

America Sold Out Taiwan Before Conceding to Red China

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 October 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Anatoly Dobrynin, Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Cambodia, CCP, Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek, China lobby, Chinese Communist Party, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Containment Doctrine, Cultural Revolution, détente, Deng Xiaoping, Doctrine of Containment, Douglas MacArthur, France, French Revolution, Gang of Four, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Great Leap Forward, Guomindang, Henry Kissinger, Ho Chi Minh, ideology, Indochinese Communist Party, Israel, Joseph Stalin, journalists, KGB, Korean War, Kuomintang, Laos, Lyndon Johnson, Mao Zedong, Marvin Liebman, media, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Nazi Germany, Nelson Rockefeller, Nicolae Ceausescu, Nikita Khrushchev, North Vietnam, Protestantism, Red China, Republic of China, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Second World War, Sino-Soviet split, South Vietnam, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Spiro Agnew, Taiwan, Tiananmen Square massacre, totalitarianism, Viet Cong, Vietnam War, Vietnamization, William F. Buckley, Yom Kippur War, Zhou Enlai on October 1, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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