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Beschreibung

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.

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.

Über den Autor

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).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften/Recht/Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781474438223
ISBN-10: 1474438229
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ashour, Omar
Hersteller: Edinburgh University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 218 x 140 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Omar Ashour
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.02.2021
Gewicht: 0,335 kg
Artikel-ID: 111265145