Irregular War: The New Threat from the Margins

by Paul Rogers

Book Overview

If the rise of Islamic State can overthrow powerful states in a matter of weeks, what kind of a secure future can the world expect? After more than a decade of the war on terror, security specialists thought that Islamist paramilitary movements were in decline; the threat from ISIS in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Qaida in Yemen, the chaos in Libya and the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan have all shown that to be wishful thinking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784534889
• ISBN13: 9781784534882
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 8.6"