How ISIS Fights
Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt
Published on 5. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
979-8-88719-538-4 (ISBN)
Description
EN: Based on extensive field work, this book analyzes how ISIS - a widely hated, massively outnumbered, and ludicrously outgunned organization - managed to occupy over 120 cities, towns, and villages from the Southern Philippines to Western Libya. Seeking to understand ISIS's combat effectiveness, Omar Ashour focuses on the military and tactical innovations of ISIS and their predecessors in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Egypt. The author explains how their capacity to mix conventional military tactics with innovative guerrilla warfare and urban terrorism strategies allowed ISIS to expand and endure beyond expectations. This Ukrainian translation is supplemented by a special introduction on Russia's war against Ukraine and the ISIS tactics adoption by Russian troops (2014-2022).
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Brighton
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88719-538-4 (9798887195384)
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Person
EN: Dr. Omar Ashour is a Professor of Security and Military Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He served as a senior consultant for the United Nations on security sector reform, counter-terrorism, and de-radicalization issues. He is the author of How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements (Routledge, 2009); co-author of the United Nations' Economic and Social Commission for West Asia's (UN-ESCWA) document on security sector reform during the transitional periods of the "Arab Spring"; and the editor of Bullets to Ballots: Collective De-Radicalisation of Armed Movements (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Furthermore, he has written over one hundred op-eds in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Globe and Mail, al-Jazeera.net, CNN.com, Project Syndicate, The Independent, and Ukrainian outlets such as New Voice and European Pravda. His current research project is focused on the Russian war on Ukraine, and it includes two forthcoming studies titled "How Putin's Army Fought like ISIS in Ukraine (2014-2022)" and "Comparative Combat Effectiveness and Ukraine's Regular and Irregular Armed Forces (2014-2022)."
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