The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency - Softcover

Nance, Malcolm W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1419661108 ISBN 13: 9781419661105

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub, 2007

Synopsis

When President George W. Bush declared “Mission Accomplished” after the invasion of Iraq, he did not know that 100,000 paramilitary commandoes, terrorists and criminals from Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agencies and the Saddam Fedayeen were waiting to prove him wrong. Spearheading a force allied with Iraqi’s Islamic extremists and Al Qaeda’s global network, Saddam’s loyalists continue to carry out a tribal, political and religious Jihad that has left over 60,000 innocent Iraqis, 3,000 American and 200 British soldiers dead in their wake. The Terrorists of Iraq is a rich historical analysis that includes: · How Saddam Hussein prepared the Iraqi intelligence and special loyalist forces to carryout a multi-year insurgency. · Examines the personalities, organization, weapons, strategy and tactics of the three wings of the insurgency including the former regime loyalist’s Saddam Fedayeen; the Iraqi religious nationalist extremist groups including Islamic Army of Iraq, Ansar al Sunnah, Ansar al Islam; as well as the foreign jihadists of Al Qaeda in Iraq and its umbrella organization the Islamic State of Iraq and the dozens of smaller Iraqi terrorist groups · Explains the dynamics of how the Iraqi Insurgents employ IEDs, assassins and suicide bombers to defy the odds and push the world’s greatest war machine toward the brink of failure. · It describes in vivid detail the history of the insurgency between 2002-2007 from the terrorists perspective · It offers a series of reality based counterinsurgency policy recommendation critical to avert the strategic loss of Iraq. Based on four years of field combat analysis, this authoritative study reveals how Saddam prepared for defeat to recreate the 1920 Revolution and how Osama bin Laden received his greatest gift, an American occupation in historic Arabia. Contains over 34 charts and images detailing insurgent organization and operations.

About this title

About the Author:

Malcolm W. Nance is a 26-year veteran of the US intelligence community’s counter-terrorism effort. He is an internationally recognized expert, author and educator on the Iraq insurgency, Jihadist tactics and Al Qaeda’s global organization. A frequent guest analyst on FOX News, he lives and works in Iraq, Afghanistan, Australia and Washington DC. He is author of The Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A manual for predicting and identifying terrorist activity.

Review:

"... if you took every member of United States Congress and House of Representatives and wrote their collected wisdom on Iraq, it's unlikely they could equal the astuteness of even a single chapter of author Malcolm W. Nance in The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003-2014. It's Nance's overwhelming real-world experiential knowledge of the subject, language, culture, tribal affiliations, and more which make this the overwhelming definitive book on the subject."
―Book review by Ben Rothke, Information Security Professional, writing on Slashdot.org

"The second edition of The Terrorists of Iraq comes at a critical time when the world is trying to understand ISIS, its origins, and its place among multiple actors in Iraq. This book is instantly the definitive source on ISIS and Nance demonstrations the often forgotten fact that ISIS has been there all along, evolving with the shifting dynamics in the theater of battle, within the insurgency and in the region. The Terrorists of Iraq remains an essential and well-researched guide for anyone interested in understanding or addressing this horrific period in global history."
―Adam Hinds, former political advisor, United Nations Iraq

"Mandatory reading for personal survival and national security―from the battlefields to the halls of Congress."
―Jay R. Stanka, Managing Editor HUMANI Magazine and U.S. Army Special Forces veteran

"A new and updated edition of Malcolm Nance’s detailed and insightful book, The Terrorists of Iraq, Second Edition, is most welcome news. His inclusion of a new chapter on ISIS and its violent origins in the disintegrating state of Iraq and bloody drive to become a 21st century Caliphate is masterful. He knows the players, their vicious infighting, and their brutal methods like few others. To read his analysis is to understand the make-up and the real threat posed by these latest claimants to forming a Caliphate in these divided lands."
―Peter Earnst, founding Executive Director of the International Spy Museum and a 35 year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

 

'This book is easy to read, vivid, and offers enormous precious experience and empirical data which make it attractive to policy-makers, scholars, and students'.--Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression

About this edition

• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1419661108
• ISBN 13: 9781419661105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412