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ISIS--the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria--has taken on the mantle of being the single most dangerous terrorist threat to global security since al-Qaeda. In Defeating ISIS, internationally renowned intelligence veteran, author, and counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance gives an insider's view to explain the origins of this occult group, its violent propaganda, and how it spreads its ideology throughout the Middle East and to disaffected youth deep in the heart of the Western world. Most importantly, Defeating ISIS gives a step-by-step analysis of the street-level tactics the group has employed in assaults against fortified targets, in urban combat, and during terrorist operations such as those in Paris during the November 13 attacks. As much as ISIS is a threat to Western targets and regional stability in the Middle East, Nance describes not only its true danger as a heretical death cult that seeks to wrest control of Islam through young ideologues and redefine Islam as a fight to the death against all comers, but also how to defeat it. Defeating ISIS is the first highly detailed look into the organization by one of the world's foremost authorities in counterterrorism.

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I really think the [2016 Presidential] candidates ought to read this. . . . You should buy this book.-- Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC

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"Malcolm Nance is an Arabic-speaking former naval intelligence counterterrorism and intelligence officer specializing in the Middle East; a combat veteran; an expert in survival, evasion, resistance, and escape expert; a historian, and New York Times bestselling author. He spent thirty-five years participating in field and combat intelligence activity including both covert and clandestine anti-counterterrorism support to national intelligence agencies. He is a member of the board of advisors at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC; is honored as one of the noteworthy African-Americans in espionage; and is featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Dirty Wars. MSNBC has labeled him one the ""unsung national security genius of our time."" He is executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics, and Radical Ideologies. Michael Kramer is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, and recipient of a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award. He is also an actor and director in the Washington, DC, area, where he is active in the area's theater scene and has appeared in productions at the Shakespeare Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and Theater J."

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