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Hunting the Caliphate, America's war on ISIS and the dawn of the strike cell, Dana J.H. Pittard and Wes J. Bryant

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Hunting the Caliphate, America's war on ISIS and the dawn of the strike cell, Dana J.H. Pittard and Wes J. Bryant

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hunting the Caliphate

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electronic resource eBook

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Dana J.H. Pittard and Wes J. Bryant

Sub title

America's war on ISIS and the dawn of the strike cell

Summary

In this vivid first-person narrative, a Special Operations Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) and his commanding general give fascinating and detailed accounts of America's fight against one of the most barbaric insurgencies the world has ever seen. In the summer of 2014, three years after America's full troop withdrawal from the Iraq War, President Barack Obama authorized a small task force to push back into Baghdad. Their mission: Protect the Iraqi capital and U.S. embassy from a rapidly emerging terrorist threat. A plague of brutality, that would come to be known as ISIS, had created a foothold in northwest Iraq and northeast Syria. It had declared itself a Caliphate-an independent nation-state administered by an extreme and cruel form of Islamic law-and was spreading like a newly evolved virus. Soon, a massive and devastating U.S. military response had unfolded. Hear the ground truth on the senior military and political interactions that shaped America's war against ISIS, a war unprecedented in both its methodology and its application of modern military technology

Table Of Contents

The War on Terror -- The Iraq crisis -- The first strikes on ISIS -- The campaign expands -- Unbalancing ISIS -- Unleashing the dogs of war -- Chaos into Syria -- State of the hunt and the way forward

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