Defeating ISIS
Subtitle: who they are, how they fight, what they believe
By: Malcolm Nance ; foreword by Richard Engel
Contributors: Engel, Richard, 1973- writer of foreword
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9781510711846
Subjects: IS (Organization); Terrorism; Jihad; Islam
Description: Offers an examination of the ISIS terrorist organization, looking at the group's origin, ideology, propaganda, organization, and tactics, and offers steps for defeating it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [442]-505) and index.
Table of contents: title: Who they are; title: The old history of the new caliphate; title: The ISIS claiphate's leadership and members; title: The caliphate organizational structure; title: Where they are; title: ISIS in the levant; title: ISIS in North Africa; title: ISIS in WEst Africa: Boko Haram; title: ISIS in Europe, North America, and Australia; title: ISIS in Afghanistan, the Gulf States, Arabian Peninsula, and Asia; title: What they believe; title: Shade of swords: the ISIS war to destroy Islam; title: A cult of jihad: the context of the ISIS war to destroy Islam; title: Life and death in the 'Islamic State'; title: Punisments, violence, and police state controls; title: Paying for the apocalypse: ISIS financial mechanisms; title: ISIS cultural cleansing: the precursor to ethnic cleansing and genocide; title: How they fight; title: Global strategy of ISIS; title: The weapons of ISIS; title: ISIS in battle and terror; title: Abduction, hostage environment, and rescue; title: ISIS social media: 'Our life in the thrill kill cult'; title: Defeating ISIS.