Bibliograph

Counter jihad, America's military experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, Brian Glyn Williams

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Counter jihad, America's military experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, Brian Glyn Williams

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-346) and index

Illustrations

platesmapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Counter jihad

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

945950057

Responsibility statement

Brian Glyn Williams

Series statement

Haney Foundation series

Sub title

America's military experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria

Summary

"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

Table Of Contents

Planting the seeds for a global conflict -- America goes to war in Afghanistan -- Hype: selling the war on Iraq to the American people -- The invasion and occupation of Iraq -- Remembering the "forgotten war" in Afghanistan -- The new war on ISIS

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