Omar Ashour

How ISIS Fights (eBook, ePUB)

Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How did ISIS - a widely hated, massively outnumbered and ludicrously outgunned organisation - manage to occupy over 120 cities, towns and villages from the Southern Philippines to Western Libya? Seeking to understand ISIS's combat effectiveness, Omar Ashour analyses the military and tactical innovations of ISIS and their predecessors in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt. He shows how their capacity to mix conventional military tactics with innovative guerrilla warfare and urban terrorism strategies allowed ISIS to expand and endure beyond expectations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474438247
• Artikelnr.: 72430481

Autorenporträt

Omar Ashour is Associate Professor of Security and Military Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He is the Founding Chair of the Critical Security Studies Programme at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and the Strategic Studies Unit in the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies. He is the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements (Routledge, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Larry P. Goodson
Acknowledgements
List of Tables; List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Is it Mainly Tactics?
2. Implodes but Expands: How the 'Islamic State' Fights in Iraq
3. Explodes and Expands: How the 'Islamic State' Fights in Syria
4. Reloads but Implodes: How the 'Islamic State' Fights in Libya
5. Lures and Endures: How 'Sinai Province' Fights in Egypt
6. Conclusion: Agency with a Tactical Edge
Bibliography; Index