Some of Paul Moorcrafts other books on military topics
A Short Thousand Years: The End of Rhodesias Rebellion (1979)
Contact 2: The Struggle for Peace (1981)
Africas Superpower (1982)
African Nemesis: War and Revolution in Southern Africa, 1945-2010 (1994)
Axis of Evil: The War on Terror (with Gwyn Winfield and John Chisholm) (2005)
The New Wars of the West (with Gwyn Winfield and John Chisholm) (2006)
Inside the Danger Zones: Travels to Arresting Places (2010)
Shooting the Messenger: The Politics of War Reporting (with Phil Taylor) (2011)
The Rhodesian War: A Military History (with Peter McLaughlin) (2011)
Mugabes War Machine (2011)
Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers: The Rare Victory of Sri Lankas Long War (2012)
Omar al-Bashir and Africas Longest War (2015)
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Contents
About the Author
Professor Paul Moorcraft is an internationally respected expert on crisis communications, especially relating to security issues. He worked for Time magazine, the BBC and most of the Western TV networks as a freelance producer/correspondent. He completed his studies at six British, Middle Eastern and African universities, thereafter lecturing full-time (consecutively) at ten universities in the UK, US, Africa, Australia and New Zealand in journalism, politics and international relations. He was most recently a visiting professor at Cardiff Universitys School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. He has worked in thirty war zones in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Balkans, often with irregular, and sometimes jihadist, forces. Most recently he has been operating in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine/Israel, Nepal, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Syria, Turkey, Sri Lanka and, for a pleasant change, the Maldives.
Dr Moorcraft spent five years as a senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and later at the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College. He also worked in Corporate Communications in the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall and in defence procurement in Bristol. The MoD recalled him for service during the Iraq war in 2003.
Dr Moorcraft is a regular broadcaster (BBC TV and radio, as well as Sky, A1 Jazeera, etc.) and op-ed writer for international newspapers (including the Guardian, New Statesman, Washington Times, Canberra Times, Business Day, etc.). He is the author of a wide range of books on military history, politics and crime. One of his recent books is the co-authored Axis of Evil: The War on Terror (Pen and Sword, 2005). An updated version, The New Wars of the West, was published by Casemate in the US in 2006. His Shooting the Messenger: The Politics of War Reporting (Potomac, Washington, 2008) was co-authored with Professor Phil Taylor. An updated version was released in 2011 (Biteback, London). The first of many editions of The Rhodesian War: A Military History (with Dr Peter McLaughlin) was published by Pen and Sword books in 2008. Mugabes War Machine (Pen and Sword) came out in 2011. Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers: The Rare Victory of Sri Lankas Long War was released by Pen and Sword in 2012. Three volumes of memoirs have been published, the most recent being Inside the Danger Zones: Travels to Arresting Places (Biteback, London, 2010). He is an award-winning novelist as well as the author of a publication related to his charity work (It Just Doesn Add Up: Explaining Dyscalculia and Overcoming Number Problems for Children and Adults (Filament, Croydon, 2014).
Paul Moorcraft is the director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis, London, founded in 2004 and dedicated to conflict resolution. He was Head of Mission, for example, of fifty independent British observers at the Sudan election of 2010. He lives in a riverside cottage in the Surrey Hills, near Guildford.
The Jihadist Timeline
300-600 AD
The superpowers of their day, the eastern Roman Empire and the Persian Sassanians, exhaust themselves in constant fighting over the Middle East. The Arabs in the Arabian peninsula are considered insignificant barbarians.
Birth of Muhammad.
Battle of Badr. Muhammad leads or commands over twenty-seven military campaigns and raids in ten years.
The date when Islamists believe the worldwide war between Jews and Muslims began.
Considered by some Islamist historians as the beginning of the war against Christians when an Arab Christian outpost of the Byzantine Empire was attacked.
Death of Muhammad.
Muslim Arabs start to conquer Syria.
Beginning of conquest of Iraq.
Arab defeat of the Persian Sassanians and the sack of their capital, Ctesiphon.
Conquest of Jerusalem.
Islamic armies complete conquest of Persia/Iran and Iraq and move into India and Afghanistan. Control of Egypt and penetration of Sudan.
First Arab siege of Constantinople.
642-705
Conquest of North Africa.
Islam starts to expand into Asia via trading posts in Sumatra, Indonesia, India and Pakistan. Also moves into China and east African coast.
711-713
Conquest of Spain and, briefly, south-western France.
Charles Martel defeats the Saracens at Battle of Tours, and pushes Muslim armies out of much of France.
The Call of Islam penetrates central Asia and southern Caucasus.
Arabs control most of northwest India
Parts of Bulgaria converted to Islam.
Arabs consolidate position in Aceh, Indonesia
1050
Muslim ships begin to raid the Philippines. Mombasa established as a key Islamic trading post for ivory and slaves. Islamic conquests in Nigeria.
1071
Byzantines pushed out of fertile areas of Turkey.
1164
Saladin starts his campaign against the Crusaders.
1174
Saladin conquers Damascus.
1200s
Muslim armies reach Bengal and mass conversion of Hindus. Sultanate based in Mogadishu in Somalia.
