
Hunting the Caliphate
America's War on ISIS and the Dawn of the Strike Cell
Author: Wes J. Bryant, Dana J.H. Pittard, General David Petraeus
Narrator: Mike Chamberlain, Shawn Compton
Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 08/27/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Wars, Middle Eastern History
Synopsis
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.