The Caliphate at War:Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State by Ahmed S. Hashim
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Overview: When ISIS first stormed across the border into Iraq in 2014, the jihadist army looked all but unstoppable. In a few short months, black flags waved in the breeze over several major cities, including Mosul, Ramadi, and Fallujah. Over three years later, the “caliphate” established by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is no more. Mosul once again belongs to the government in Baghdad, while ISIS holdings in Syria has been drastically reduced to just a few small outputs in the southeastern desert.
Professor Ahmed S. Hashim’s The Caliphate at War details how ISIS came to be and how it tried (and failed) to build a terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East. Although written before the final dissolution of ISIS-held Mosul, Hashim’s book clearly outlines all the ways in which the ISIS experiment had already failed by late 2015.
The Caliphate at War is neither a military history nor a rundown of the various intelligence plots designed to destroy ISIS. Rather, this is a political science text that examines the history of the ISIS idea and the ways in which ISIS innovated and created a jihadist paradigm that actually came very close to creating a functioning state.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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