TY - BOOK ID - 4886178 TI - Counter jihad : America's military experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria PY - 2016 SN - 9780812248678 PB - Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press DB - UniCat KW - Afghan War, 2001 KW - -Iraq War, 2003-2011. KW - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. KW - Guerre en Afghanistan, 2001 KW - -Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011 KW - Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009 KW - IS (Organization). KW - United States KW - Middle East KW - Syria KW - Etats-Unis KW - Moyen-Orient KW - Syrie KW - History, Military KW - History KW - Histoire militaire KW - Histoire KW - WAR ON TERRORISM, 2001-2009 KW - AFGHAN WAR, 2001 KW - -IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011 KW - SYRIA--HISTORY--CIVIL WAR, 2011 KW - -I.S. (ORGANIZATION) KW - Guerre en Afghānistān, 2001 KW - IS (Organization) KW - -Iraq War, 2003-2011 KW - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 KW - History [Military ] KW - 21st century KW - Civil war, 2011 KW - -IS (Organization) KW - -Afghan War, 2001 KW - Afghan War, 2001-2021. KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011. KW - -Afghan War, 2001-2021. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4886178 AB - Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the War on Terror, it provides a retrospective on the extraordinary series of conflicts that saw the United States deploy more than two and a half million men and women to fight in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Brian Glyn Williams traces these unfolding wars from their origins in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan through U.S. Central Command's ongoing campaign to "degrade and destroy" the hybrid terrorist group known as ISIS. Williams takes readers on a journey beginning with the 2001 U.S. overthrow of the Taliban, to the toppling of Saddam Hussein, to the unexpected emergence of the notorious ISIS "Caliphate" in the Iraqi lands that the United States once occupied. Counter Jihad is the first history of America's military operations against radical Islamists, from the Taliban-controlled Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan, to the Sunni Triangle of Iraq, to ISIS's headquarters in the deserts of central Syria, giving both generalists and specialists an overview of events that were followed by millions but understood by few. Williams provides the missing historical context for the rise of the terror group ISIS out of the ashes of Saddam Hussein's secular Baathist Iraq, arguing that it is only by carefully exploring the recent past that can we understand how this jihadist group came to conquer an area larger than Britain and spread havoc from Syria to Paris to San Bernardino. ER -