The Master Plan : ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory / Brian H. Fishman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fishman, Brian H., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qaida (Organization).

IS (Organization).

Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam.

Terrorism.

Jihad.

Strategy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An incisive narrative history of the Islamic State, from the 2005 master plan to reestablish the Caliphate to its quest for Final Victory in 2020 Given how quickly its operations have achieved global impact, it may seem that the Islamic State materialized suddenly. In fact, al-Qaeda's operations chief, Sayf al-Adl, devised a seven-stage plan for jihadis to conquer the world by 2020 that included reestablishing the Caliphate in Syria between 2013 and 2016. Despite a massive schism between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, al-Adl's plan has proved remarkably prescient. In summer 2014, ISIS declared itself the Caliphate after capturing Mosul, Iraq-part of stage five in al-Adl's plan. Drawing on large 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Sources, Spelling, and Names

Key Characters

Prologue: The Kandahar Meeting

1. The Awakening Stage (2000-2003)

2. The Eye-Opening Stage (2003-2006)

3. The Stage of Standing Upright (2007-2010)

4. The Stage of Recuperation (2010-2013)

5. The Stage of Declaring the State (2013-2016)

6. The Stage of Absolute Confrontation (2016-2018)

7. The Stage of Final Victory (2018-2020)

Appendix: The 2005 "General Plan" of the Army of the Followers of the Sunna and Collective

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-22149-5

0-300-22453-2

OCLC:

1143801736