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02847aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 17E1DB08077611EA8979CD2597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191115010356 008 180522t20192019nyuab b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9781642930559 020 $a 1642930555 035 $a (OCoLC)1036099143 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d TRB $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d KSG $d IOU $d SILO 050 4 $a HV6433.I722 $b P58 2019 100 1 $a Pittard, Dana, J. H. $c (Combat veteran), $e author. 245 10 $a Hunting the Caliphate : $b America's war on ISIS and the dawn of the strike cell / $c Dana J.H. Pittard and Wes J. Bryant. 246 3 $a America's war on ISIS and the dawn of the strike cell 264 1 $a New York ; $b Post Hill Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xxiv, 325 pages $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 520 $a In this vivid first-person narrative, a Special Operations Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) and his commanding general give fascinating and detailed accounts of America's fight against one of the most barbaric insurgencies the world has ever seen. In the summer of 2014, three years after America's full troop withdrawal from the Iraq War, President Barack Obama authorized a small task force to push back into Baghdad. Their mission: Protect the Iraqi capital and U.S. embassy from a rapidly emerging terrorist threat. A plague of brutality, that would come to be known as ISIS, had created a foothold in northwest Iraq and northeast Syria. It had declared itself a Caliphate-an independent nation-state administered by an extreme and cruel form of Islamic law-and was spreading like a newly evolved virus. Soon, a massive and devastating U.S. military response had unfolded. Hear the ground truth on the senior military and political interactions that shaped America's war against ISIS, a war unprecedented in both its methodology and its application of modern military technology. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a The War on Terror -- The Iraq crisis -- The first strikes on ISIS -- The campaign expands -- Unbalancing ISIS -- Unleashing the dogs of war -- Chaos into Syria -- State of the hunt and the way forward. 610 20 $a IS (Organization) 650 0 $a Terrorism $z Middle East. 650 0 $a Terrorists $z Iraq. 650 0 $a Terrorists $z Syria. 650 0 $a Religious fundamentalism. 650 0 $a Islamic fundamentalism. 650 0 $a Jihad. 650 0 $a Insurgency $z Middle East. 650 0 $a Insurgency $z Iraq. 650 0 $a Insurgency $z Syria. 651 0 $a Middle East $x History $y 21st century. 655 7 $a Personal Narratives. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Bryant, Wes J. $c (Combat veteran), $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20191115081426.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=17E1DB08077611EA8979CD2597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search