How ISIS Fights
Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt
dc.contributor.author | Ashour, Omar | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-14T05:39:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2025-01-14T05:39:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/97095 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.subject.classification | bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPW Political activism::JPWL Terrorism, armed struggle | |
dc.subject.other | Political Science | |
dc.subject.other | Terrorism | |
dc.title | How ISIS Fights | |
dc.title.alternative | Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt | |
dc.type | book | |
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oapen.relation.isFundedBy | b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9781474438216 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9781474438223 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9781474438230 | |
oapen.collection | Knowledge Unlatched (KU) | |
oapen.imprint | Edinburgh University Press | |
oapen.identifier | https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/eec4d573-a026-47e2-b6d7-4d4105392ee0 | |
grantor.number | eec4d573-a026-47e2-b6d7-4d4105392ee0 |