TY - BOOK ID - 86178166 TI - How ISIS Fights : Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt PY - 2021 SN - 9781474438216 PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - I.S. (ORGANIZATION) KW - TACTICS KW - GUERRILLA WARFARE--MIDDLE EAST UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86178166 AB - 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, the author 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 innovate guerrilla warfare and urban terrorism strategies allowed ISIS to expand and endure beyond expectations. ER -