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Counter jihad

Brian Glyn Williams

2017367 pagesabout 6–8 hours
2017
first published
  • 2017University of Pennsylvania Press · ENGISBN 9780812293463
  • 2017University of Pennsylvania Press · 367 pages · ENGISBN 9780812248678
  • 2018University of Pennsylvania Press · 400 pagesISBN 9780812224207

"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.

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ViolenceFrequent

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ThemesWar

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