دانلود کتاب The West’s War Against Islamic State: Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria and Iraq

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Cover page\nHalftitle page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nEpigraph\nContents\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n Structure of the book\n1 The Rise of ISIS and the Creation of the Coalition\n The invasion of Iraq, the Syrian civil war, and the rise of ISIS\n Understanding ISIS\n The creation of the Global Coalition\n Conclusion\n2 America’s War – From ‘Degrade and Destroy’ to the ‘Defeat’ of ISIS\n The battle to ‘degrade and destroy’ ISIS under Barack Obama\n Donald Trump and the ‘defeat’ of ISIS\n Conclusion\n3 The Proxy Wars For and Against ISIS\n The rise of ISIS and proxy opportunities\n The proxy war against Bashar al-Assad\n The proxy war against ISIS\n The dangers of proxy war-waging against ISIS\n Conclusion\n4 On the Ground and in the Air – Assessing the Special Forces Operations, Local Force Training Missions, and Aerial Campaign Against ISIS\n Special Operations Forces in the war against ISIS\n The train, advise, and assist mission\n The air war against ISIS\n5 Fighting ISIS by Other Means – The Cyber and Finance War\n The cyber war against ISIS\n The finance war against ISIS\n6 The Alternative War: Russia, Iran, and Turkey Against ISIS\n Russia’s war in Syria: more pro-Assad than anti-ISIS\n Iran’s war: Soleimani and the ‘road to the sea’\n Turkey’s complicated war\n Conclusion\nConclusion Operation Inherent Resolve and the Future of ISIS\n The dangers of the ‘defeat’ discourse and the implications of COVID-19\n The death of al-Baghdadi and the future of ISIS\n Assessing the performance of the Global Coalition and Operation Inherent Resolve\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex