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• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Afghan Prelude
• One: The Overthrow of the Taliban: Afghanistan, 2001
• Part II: The Occupation of Iraq
• Two: Iraq Under Sanctions: Iraq, 1990–2003
• Three: Regime Change: Iraq, 2003
• Four: Resistance: Iraq, 2004
• Five: Bombs and Ballots: Iraq, 2005
• Six: Civil War: Iraq, 2006–07
• Seven: Drawdown: Iraq, 2007–10
• Part III: Afghan Reprise
• Eight: The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan, 2009–12
• Part IV: The Arab Spring
• Nine: Mission Creep: Libya, 2011
• Ten: The ‘Somalianisation’ of Libya: Libya, 2012–14
• Eleven: Yemen in the Crossfire: Yemen, 2009–15
• Twelve: Sectarian Venom: Bahrain, 2011
• Part V: Syria: Revolution and Counter-Revolution
• Thirteen: From Revolution to Sectarian War: Syria, 2011–13
• Fourteen: Syrian Catastrophe: Syria, 2013–14
• Part VI: Birth of a Caliphate
• Fifteen: Ten Years On: Iraq, 2013
• Sixteen: Iraq on the Brink: Iraq, 2013–14
• Seventeen: The Islamic State Expands: The Caliphate, 2014
• Eighteen: The Islamic State Remains: The Caliphate, 2014–15
• Nineteen: Life in the Caliphate: The Caliphate, 2015
• Twenty: The Islamic State at Bay: The Caliphate, 2015–16
• Afterword: Eight Wars
• Acknowledgements
• Index