How ISIS fights military tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt
How did ISIS - a widely hated, massively outnumbered and ludicrously outgunned organisation - manage to occupy over 120 cities, towns and villages from the Southern Philippines to Western Libya? Seeking to understand ISIS's combat effectiveness, Omar Ashour analyses the military and tactical in...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
2021
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Terrorismus
> Terrorist
> Strategie
> Taktik
> Naher Osten
> Mittlerer Osten
> Nordafrika
> Irak
> Syrien
> Libyen
> Ägypten
> Islamischer Staat
> Kriegführung
> Geschichte 2013-2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | How did ISIS - a widely hated, massively outnumbered and ludicrously outgunned organisation - manage to occupy over 120 cities, towns and villages from the Southern Philippines to Western Libya? Seeking to understand ISIS's combat effectiveness, Omar Ashour analyses the military and tactical innovations of ISIS and their predecessors in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt. He shows how their capacity to mix conventional military tactics with innovative guerrilla warfare and urban terrorism strategies allowed ISIS to expand and endure beyond expectations. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 214-234, Register |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 243 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781474438216 978-1-4744-3821-6 9781474438223 978-1-4744-3822-3 |