No. 165: The US Campaign against the 'Islamic State'

No. 165: The US Campaign against the 'Islamic State'

Author(s): Martin Zapfe
Editor(s): Christian Nünlist
Series Editor(s): Christian Nünlist, Matthias Bieri
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 165
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2014

The US-led campaign against the 'Islamic State' in Syria and Iraq is full of internal contradictions, yet nevertheless a logical result of the underlying planning parameters. To understand the campaign, it is imperative to focus on those parameters and to analyze the operation separately for Iraq and Syria.

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Enlarged view:
Syria, Iraq and the "Islamic State"
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