The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic StateMacmillan + ORM, 2015 M09 22 - 258 pages Based almost entirely on primary sources in Arabic--including ancient religious texts and secret al-Qaeda and Islamic State letters that few have seen--William McCants's The ISIS Apocalypse explores how religious fervor, strategic calculation, and doomsday prophecy shaped the Islamic State's past and foreshadow its dark future. |
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... letter to Zarqawi . Echoing the nineteenth - century Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz , Atiyya reminded Zarqawi that " policy must be dominant over militarism . This is one of the pillars of war that is agreed upon by all ...
... letter. As he saw it, the unauthorized announcement “caused splits in the ranks of the mujahids and their supporters inside and outside Iraq.” 46 Zawahiri would later recall that “the general command of [al-Qaeda] and its emir Shaykh ...
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