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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: group that calls itself a state
    sub title: understanding the evolution and challenges of the Islamic State
  title info:
    title: Understanding the evolution and challenges of the Islamic State
  name:
    name part: ʻUbaydī, Muḥammad
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lahoud, Nelly
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Milton, Daniel J. (Daniel James)
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Price, Bryan
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Combating Terrorism Center (U.S.)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (102 pages) : color illustrations
  abstract: In an attempt to paint a more complete picture of the Islamic State (IS), this report identifies key areas where the IS has shown strength, learning, and adaptation. This report also highlights key areas of weakness, mistake, and failure. In doing so, the reader should be well aware that this product provides such an overview with the explicit understanding that there is more to learn in each of these areas. The report proceeds as follows. The first section traces the historical evolution of the group, with emphasis on the fact that well executed design and an ability to take advantage of accidents led to the creation of the IS. The second section provides a very brief and preliminary comparison of the IS to other prominent militant organizations against which the United States has fought: al-Qa'ida and the Taliban. This section is followed by a third that outlines and explores the strengths and weaknesses of the IS as a whole, noting that the IS's success comes from its ability to leverage all parts of its organization to achieve maximum gain. This section also points out that, despite this success, the fact that the IS is attempting to operate across multiple functional areas will test the group's ability to adapt over time and will ultimately expose the group's shortcomings. The fourth and final section steps back to examine, at the strategic level, some of the challenges faced and opportunities available to those combating the IS.
  table of contents: Executive summary. -- Introduction. -- Metamorphosis: from al-Tawhid wa-al-Jihad to Dawlat al-Khilafa (2003-2014) -- Goals and methods: comparing three militant groups. -- The Islamic State: an adaptive organization facing increasing challenges. -- The strategic implications of combating the IS. -- The way ahead. -- Appendix.
  note: Muhammad al-'Ubaydi, Nelly Lahoud, Daniel Milton, Bryan Price.
  note: "December 2014"--Title page.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: IS (Organization)
  subject:
    topic: Terrorists
    geographic: Iraq
  subject:
    topic: Terrorists
    geographic: Syria
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    geographic: Middle East
  identifier: https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-group-that-calls-itself-a-state-understanding-the-evolution-and-challenges-of-the-islamic-state
  record info:
    record content source: DID
    record creation date: 141226
    record change date: 20151206130150.0
    record identifier: in00003432808