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The Jihadis Return

ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising

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The Jihadis Return

By: Patrick Cockburn
Narrated by: C. James Moore
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How could things have gone so badly wrong? Writing with customary calmness and clarity, and drawing on unrivaled experience as a reporter in the region, Cockburn analyzes the unfolding of one of the West's greatest foreign policy debacles and the rise of the new jihadis.

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For a small investment of time and money, I got a good view of who is in ISIS, and where they came from (territorially and historically). Questions are answered, for example, where did they get their military prowess? Also correspondingly, what went wrong on the other side in places like Mosul, in which a superior (in numbers and equipment) Iraqi national military force fled and the place fell like ripe fruit into ISIS's hands?

An insightful introduction in a small package

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Short book but overall a good one for any one interested in sectarianism in Iraq and Syria.

OVERALL A GOOD LISTEN

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