title: A “Sideshow” to the Great War
abstract: The Caucasus Campaign was one of the main campaigns in the Middle Eastern theatre of the war. More than any other event, the Ottoman-Russian engagement in the Caucasus turned a continental conflict in Europe into a world war. The significance of this front was far greater than is generally imagined, given the proportion of troop strength operating on the front in the total mass of the armed forces of both coalitions that fought the war. At the time of warfare, however, most Entente war planners 