Counter jihad
Subtitle: America's military experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria
By: Brian Glyn Williams
Series: Haney Foundation series; Haney Foundation series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780812248678
Subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; IS (Organization); Military History; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Afghan War, 2001-; History
Description: "Counter Jihad is the first history of America's military operations against radical Islamists, from the Taliban-controlled Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan, to the Sunni Triangle of Iraq, to ISIS's headquarters in the deserts of central Syria, giving both generalists and specialists an overview of events that were followed by millions but understood by few. Williams provides the missing historical context for the rise of the terror group ISIS out of the ashes of Saddam Hussein's secular Baathist Iraq, arguing that it is only by carefully exploring the recent past that can we understand how this jihadist group came to conquer an area larger than Britain and spread havoc from Syria to Paris to San Bernardino." -- from publisher website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: Planting the seeds for a global conflict; title: America goes to war in Afghanistan; title: Hype: selling the war on Iraq to the American people; title: The invasion and occupation of Iraq; title: Remembering the "forgotten war" in Afghanistan; title: The new war on ISIS.