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"This highly decorated and highly visible author is revising his first edition of The Terrorists of Iraq in the wake of the most recent turmoil effecting the country. His new edition contains valuable insight to many of the terrorist groups in the regionincluding ISIS, which is being talked about on nearly every news outlet today. The book will continue to draw on the historical analyses, examinations of organizations/weapons/strategy & tactics, and policy recommendations included in the first edition- but, will add valuable insight learned from the most recent crisis and the changes that have occurred in the last 6 years since its publication. "--
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Who Is Fighting in Iraq? Victory through Defeat: Saddam Plans for Insurgency. Crucible of the Insurgency: The Fedayeen Goes to War. Victory from the Jaws of Defeat: Launching the Iraq Insurgency. The Insurgent’s Strategy. Bringing It On. Insurgent Weapons and Tactics. "Jihad Is the Only Way …" Iraqi Islamic Extremists—Ansar al-Islam, Ansar al-Sunnah: The Islamic Army in Iraq and Others. Al-Qaeda and the Foreign Terrorists in Iraq. Fallujah: The Crucible of the Iraq Jihad. Stepping on Mercury. Al-Qaeda’s Lonely Road to Recovery. Lions of God: ISIS and the Islamic Caliphate (2013–2014). Internal Organization of the ISIS. Welcome to the Jihadist Crescent.
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Malcolm W. Nance is a counterterrorism and intelligence consultant for the US Special Operations, Homeland Security, and Intelligence agencies, with more than 33 years of experience in combatting radical extremism. An honorably retired Arabic-speaking US Navy intelligence collections operator, field interrogator, and survival, evasion, resistance, and escape specialist, he spent two decades on clandestine antiterrorism and counterterrorism intelligence operations in the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa in support of the Special Operations and Intelligence Community. He is currently executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics, and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI), Hudson, New York, USA.
