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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: ISIS enlists zealots to sustain its expanding militant organization, fueled by terror and jihad.
Chapter 3: The objective of ISIS is to found a caliphate, an Islamic state in which sharia law holds authority.
Chapter 4: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was the seed from which the future ISIS’s jihadist ambitions ultimately fully grew.
Chapter 5: The fraught alliance between al-Zarqawi and bin Laden laid the groundwork for ISIS.
Chapter 6: In Iraq, al-Zarqawi discovered many disenfranchised Baathists who would later remain loyal to ISIS.
Chapter 7: After al-Zarqawi died in a bombing, his legacy became the foundation underpinning the emergence and birth of ISIS.
Chapter 8: While al-Qaeda was forced out of Iraq, ISIS bided its time and patiently built its networks there.
Chapter 9: Syria became the crucible of ISIS’s early regional power, after the split with al-Qaeda was then finally complete.
Chapter 10: Potent propaganda and relentless media coverage have helped swell ISIS’s ranks.
Chapter 11: ISIS employs a variety of well-crafted, patient strategies to seize and control its territory.
Chapter 12: America’s strategy for combating ISIS has largely been ill-informed and ineffectual.
Description
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (2015) charts the rapid rise of the Islamic State in the Middle East, from its early beginnings to its self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Grippingly told, the story of ISIS’s domination over al-Qaeda in Iraq and its slow but ruthless push in Syria also shines light on the failings of the West in dealing with this fanatical yet disciplined jihadi group.
Who Should Listen
- People interested in international politics and the rise of terrorism
- Historians or students of Middle Eastern studies
- Anyone with an interest in examples of religious extremism