A Time to Tweet, as Well as a Time to Kill: ISIS’s Projection of Power in Iraq and Syria

Authors

Heather Marie Marie Vitale, George Mason University; National Defense University
James M. Keagle, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

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Description

On June 29, 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or the Islamic State),1 a Sunni jihadist group with the capability of a paramilitary, established an Islamic caliphate. With 10,000 militants, the group took territory and achieved a goal that rival terrorist group al Qaeda has pursued for decades. Yet how did a group with relatively few fighters accomplish so much?

Document Type

Policy Brief

Publication Date

10-2014

Publication

Defense Horizons

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, DC

Recommended Citation

Vitale, Heather Marie Marie and Keagle, James M., "A Time to Tweet, as Well as a Time to Kill: ISIS’s Projection of Power in Iraq and Syria" (2014). Defense Horizons. 8.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/defense-horizons/8