The master plan
Subtitle: ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi strategy for final victory
By: Brian H. Fishman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780300221497
Subjects: Qaida (Organization); Islamic fundamentalism; IS (Organization); Jihad; Terrorism; Islam
Description: "Drawing on troves of recently declassified documents captured from the Islamic State and its predecessors, counterterrorism expert Brian Fishman tells the story of this organization's complex and largely hidden past.- and what the master plan suggests about its future. Only by understanding the Islamic State's full history- and the strategy that drove it- can we understand the contradictions that may ultimately tear it apart" -- Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-338) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: The Kandahar Meeting -- -- 1.; title: The Awakening Stage (2000-2003) -- -- 2.; title: The Eye-Opening Stage (2003-2006) -- -- 3.; title: The Stage of Standing Upright (2007-2010) -- -- 4.; title: The Stage of Recuperation (2010-2013) -- -- 5.; title: The Stage of Declaring the State (2013-2016) --; title: The Stage of Absolute Confrontation (2016-2018) -- -- 7.; title: The Stage of Final Victory (2018-2020).