The Master Plan: Isis, Al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory - Couverture rigide

Fishman, Brian H.

 
9780300221497: The Master Plan: Isis, Al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0300221495 ISBN 13 : 9780300221497
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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

"With its original and powerful analysis, The Master Plan should be required reading for anyone attempting to understand both ISIS and al-Qaeda and the implications for contemporary global security."--Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Brian Fishman is a counterterrorism research fellow with the International Security Program at New America. He previously served as director of research at the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy. As a professor at West Point, he taught the first dedicated course on the Islamic State of Iraq in spring 2008.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300221495
ISBN 13 
9780300221497
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
376
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