Blood year: terror and the Islamic state

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Last year was a "blood year" in the Middle East - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of Western strategy. We saw the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq, and foreign fighters - many from Europe, Australia and Africa - flowing into Syria at a rate ten times that during the height of the Iraq War. What went wrong?In Blood Year, David Kilcullen calls on twenty-five years' experience to answer that question. This is a vivid, urgent account of the War on Terror by someone who helped shape its strategy, as well as wit.;Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Bloodyear : Terror and the Islamic State David Kilcullen; Correspondence : Inga Clendinnen, Jack Kirszenblat, Peter Martin, Stephen Duckett, Susan Ryan, Rodney Syme, Paul A. Komesaroff, Leah Kaminsky, Leanne Rowe, Ian Maddocks, Karen Hitchcock; Contributors; Back Cover. Cover Page Title Page Copyright Contents Bloodyear : Terror and the Islamic State David Kilcullen Correspondence : Inga Clendinnen, Jack Kirszenblat, Peter Martin, Stephen Duckett, Susan Ryan, Rodney Syme, Paul A. Komesaroff, Leah Kaminsky, Leanne Rowe, Ian Maddocks, Karen Hitchcock Contributors Back Cover.