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Two American F-15E Strike Eagles, a tennis court-sized two-seat fighter jet capable of delivering ordnance on a precise set of coordinates, often would set up in a continuous thirty to forty degree 1.5 G turn around the city of Raqqa in the Syrian Arab Republic. The cinder block buildings below, built haphazardly in a series of belts around a small and dense old city, was the home to the Islamic State (ISIS), and its network of poorly trained, but tenacious, militia members, many of whom had traveled from countries around the world to join the notional caliphate. ISIS stunned the world in 2014 after it leveraged state collapse in Syria and a long-standing network in Iraq to defeat its jihadist cousin, Al-Qaeda in Syria, then dubbed the Nusra Front. The Islamic State rampaged through western and northern Iraq to take control over a swathe of territory roughly the size of Great Britain, forcing a global response to defeat the group. The war against ISIS was always meant to be small and focused. But its repercussions have been considerable and far reaching, including helping to cause a serious rupture in Turkish-Western relations and indirectly contributing to Russia’s return to the Middle East. This book explains the war against Islamic State in Syria from the point of view of the men and women who fought it and the diplomats who sought to manage it. The prosecution of any war is complicated and fraught, with choices having to be made about how best to fight against an elusive enemy committed to withstanding the use of force. The American war in Syria was no different and its prosecution enmeshed the United States in a truly modern conflict, where US men and women fought the war from all around the world, connecting with a partner force that leveraged air power and Special Operations Forces (SOF) to wage a traditional ground campaign untraditionally. The story of war against Islamic State is one of trade offs about how to keep the American presence limited, albeit while trying to manage a recalcitrant Turkey, and ensuring that tensions with Russia did not escalate. This story is captured in this book, perhaps for the first time in print.