 Complete the following phrase:  Bagramyan was well aware of the military situation at the Caucasus front during the first months of the world war. In the winter of 191415, the Imperial Russian Army was able to withstand and repel the Ottoman Empires offensive at Sarikamish, and to take the fight to its territory. Bagramyan also began reading harrowing reports in the Russian press of what was taking place against his fellow kinsmen across the border: the Committee of Union and Progress-led government had 