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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Brian Glyn, author.

Series:

Haney Foundation series

[Haney Foundation series]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

IS (Organization).

History.

United States--History, Military--21st century.

United States.

History, Military.

Middle East--History--21st century.

Middle East.

Afghan War, 2001-2021.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Syria--History--Civil War, 2011-.

Syria.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Iraq.

Genre:

History.

Military history.

Physical Description:

xvi, 367 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-346) and index.

ISBN:

9780812248678

0812248678

OCLC:

945950057

Publisher Number:

40026606313