Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe - Couverture souple

Nance, Malcolm

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1510729739 ISBN 13 : 9781510729735

Editeur : Skyhorse, 2017

Synopsis

A New York Times bestseller!

This reference shows how to understand the history and tactics of the global terror group ISIS—and how to use that knowledge to defeat it.

ISIS—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—has taken on the mantle of being the single most dangerous terrorist threat to global security since al-Qaeda. In Defeating ISIS, internationally renowned intelligence veteran and counter-terrorism expert Malcolm Nance, author of The Plot to Hack America and the forthcoming Hacking ISIS, gives an insider’s view to explain the origins of this occult group, its violent propaganda, and how it spreads its ideology throughout the Middle East and to disaffected youth deep in the heart of the Western world.

The group and its followers have struck repeatedly over the past few years: in Paris, Brussels, and Nice; at a center for developmental disabilities in San Bernadino, California; in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Defeating ISIS gives a step-by-step analysis of the street-level tactics the terrorists have employed in assaults against fortified targets, in urban combat, and during terrorist operations both at home and abroad. As much as ISIS is a threat to Western targets and regional stability in the Middle East, Nance describes not only its true danger as a heretical death cult that seeks to wrest control of Islam through young ideologues and redefine Islam as a fight to the death against all comers, but also how to defeat it.

Updated throughout and featuring a new afterword, Defeating ISIS is a highly detailed look into the organization by one of the world’s foremost authorities in counter-terrorism

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À propos de l'auteur

Malcolm Nance is a globally recognized counterterrorism expert and Intelligence Community member who has been deployed to intelligence operations in the Balkans, Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of The Plot to Hack America, Hacking Isis, and New York Times bestseller Defeating Isis. He appears regularly on MSNBC. Nance lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Foreword

ISIS is a cult that wants to transform Islam at gunpoint, and to defeat
it the world must understand the group on its own terms, according to
Malcolm Nance. As an analyst, historian, and counterterrorism expert,
Nance explains that ISIS has deep roots, stretching back to the earliest
days of Islamic history. He’s absolutely clear, however, that it was a very
modern event that allowed ISIS to burst onto center stage and show off
its brutality for the world to see.

“The invasion of Iraq,” he writes, “was not just an exhausting failure,
unsuccessful in stamping out insurgency and terrorism, it actually created
the entire legion of terror and tyranny that we know as the Islamic
State.”

In his detailed and informed study Nance argues that, in effect,
America’s War on Terror created a new breed of vicious terrorists who
wear the mask of Islam like actors in a Kabuki theatre while carrying out
horrifically un-Islamic acts like posing for selfies during battle, and burning
a hostage alive.

But as William Shakespeare scoffed, “the Devil can cite scripture for
his purpose.”

—Richard Engel
December 23, 2015

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Skyhorse
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1510729739
• ISBN 13: 9781510729735
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 544
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Simon & Schuster; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italie