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PODCAST: The Islamic State’s War in Iraq and Syria

April 15, 2015
PODCAST: The Islamic State’s War in Iraq and Syria
PODCAST: The Islamic State’s War in Iraq and Syria

PODCAST: The Islamic State’s War in Iraq and Syria

JM Berger, William McCants, Denise Natali, and Douglas A. Ollivant
April 15, 2015

This is the podcast in which War on the Rocks fixes the Middle East…ok, we kid, but it is a fascinating conversation with some of the most astute and informed U.S. experts on Iraq and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Have a listen!

 

We were joined by:

  • J.M. Berger, author of the new book, ISIS: State of Terror (along with Jessica Stern) and a nonresident fellow in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution.
  • William McCants, author of the forthcoming book, ISIS Apocalypse, a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy and director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution.
  • Denise Natali, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University (her views do not necessarily represent those of the U.S. government).
  • Douglas Ollivant, a senior national security fellow with the New America Foundation and a managing partner and the Senior Vice President of Mantid International.

Ryan Evans, editor-in-chief of War on the Rocks, moderated with Lagavulin 16 neat in hand.

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