The caliphate at war
Subtitle: operational realities and innovations of the Islamic State
By: Ahmed S. Hashim
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780190668488
Subjects: IS (Organization); Ḥizb al-Daʻwah al-Islāmīyah; Terrorism; Islam; History
Description: Innovation is key to military success, as Ahmed S. Hashim explains in his study of how Islamic State functions as a fighting, social media, and administrative entity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Understanding the "Islamic State" -- -- 2. "The; title: unlucky country" : a historical and political survey of Iraq -- -- 3.; title: "Why they fight" : ideology and goals -- -- 4.; title: From network to organization : the structure of the Islamic State and its predecessors -- -- 5.; title: "Organizing to fight" : the evolution of the Jihadist way of war in Iraq -- -- 6.; title: Organizing to build caliphate 3.0 : state-formation and nation-building under the Islamic State.