How ISIS Fights : Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt

Author: Ashour, Omar (Professor of Security and Military Studies, The Doha Institute for Graduate Studies)

Middle East

Published on 28 February 2021 by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 256 pages, 10 black and white tables
139 x 215 x 22 | 342g

How did ISIS – a widely hated, massively outnumbered and ludicrously outgunned organisation – manage to occupy over 120 cities, towns and villages from the Southern Philippines to Western Libya? Seeking to understand ISIS’s combat effectiveness, Omar Ashour analyses the military and tactical innovations of ISIS and their predecessors in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt. He shows how their capacity to mix conventional military tactics with innovative guerrilla warfare and urban terrorism strategies allowed ISIS to expand and endure beyond expectations.