How ISIS Fights
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 innovat...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1500782025-07-30T08:37:23Z How ISIS Fights Ashour, Omar Political Science Terrorism bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPW Political activism::JPWL Terrorism, armed struggle 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. 2025-01-21T04:26:45Z 2025-01-21T04:26:45Z 2025-01-14T05:39:24Z 2021 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/97095 9781474438216 9781474438223 9781474438230 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150078 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/97095/1/external_content.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/97095/1/external_content.epub Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh University Press 208d7ab7-a2e4-4c7f-83b1-53dfb4ba4a35 Knowledge Unlatched 9781474438216 9781474438223 9781474438230 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Open Services Edinburgh University Press open access |
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