The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory Audiobook (Free)

Provided how quickly its functions have achieved global impact, it may seem that this Islamic State materialized suddenly. In fact, al-Qaeda’s operations key, Sayf al-Adl, devised a seven-stage arrange for jihadis to conquer the globe by 2020 that included reestablishing the Caliphate in Syria between 2013 and 2016. Despite a massive schism between your Islamic Condition and al-Qaeda, al-Adl’s program has proved extremely prescient. In summer time 2014, ISIS announced itself the Caliphate after recording Mosul, Iraq-part of stage five in al-Adl’s plan.

Drawing on large troves of recently declassified files captured through the Islamic State and its own predecessors, counterterrorism expert Brian Fishman tells the storyplot of the organization’s complex and largely hidden past-and the actual master program suggests about its future.

Only by understanding the Islamic State’s whole history-and the strategy that drove it-can we understand the contradictions that may ultimately tear it aside.

“The definitive history of the Islamic State-told by among a small number of professionals who studied the group a long time before it became what it is today.”-Peter Neumann, King’s College London