Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/02/2016
'We're now in the fifteenth year since 9/11 and, horrible though it is to contemplate, we may be nowhere close to the end of the War on Terror. For a while, it looked like things were improving: we were getting on top of the threat. But that was before ISIS began crucifying children, before the Taliban swept back out of the mountains to seize the cities, before the bodies of asylum-seekers began washing up on the beaches, before the first Russian cluster bomb fell on a Syrian village, before the first suicide vest exploded in a Paris concert hall.'
We have seen a 'blood year'—massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of foreign policy and military strategy. We witnessed the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq, and a brutal Syrian civil war. What went wrong?
In Blood Year, David Kilcullen calls on twenty-five years' experience to answer that question. He looks to strategy and history to make sense of the crisis. What are the roots of the global jihad movement? What is ISIS? What threats does it pose for Australia? What does its rise say about the effectiveness of the War on Terror since 9/11, and what does a coherent strategy look like after a disastrous year?
Blood Year is a vivid, urgent account of the War on Terror by a thinker who helped shape its strategy and witnessed its evolution on the ground.
Winner, Walkley Award for Feature Writing: 'A rare and critical account from inside the war room . . . Gripping from beginning to end.'
- ISBN:
- 9781863958257
- 9781863958257
- Category:
- Theory of warfare & military science
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 15-02-2016
- Publisher:
- Black Inc.
- Edition:
- 1st Edition
- Pages:
- 304
- Weight:
- 0.41kg
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