The master plan: ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Jihadi strategy for final victory

Author
Fishman, Brian H.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2016
Language
English
Call Number
HV6433.I722 F57 2016
ISBN
9780300221497
Reference Only
Off
Number of Pages
354
Library of Congress Subject Heading
Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Library of Congress Subject Heading 2
Islamic fundamentalism
Abstract

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.