Endnotes
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1. Gordon Lubold and Doug Cameron, "Ash Carter Offers Peek at 2017 Pentagon Budget," The Wall Street Journal, February 2, 2016, accessed June 24, 2016,
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2. Lubold and Cameron, "Ash Carter."
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3. Donald Holbrook, "Al-Qaeda and the Rise of ISIS," Survival: Global Politics and Strategy 57 (2015): 93-104.
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4. "Profile: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," BBC News, May, 2015, accessed June 12, 2016.
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5. Anthony N. Celse, "Zarqawi's Legacy: Al Qaeda's ISIS Renegade," Mediterranian Quarterly 26 (2015): 21-41, Doi:10.1215/10474552-2914495.
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6. "Profile: Ayman al-Zawahiri," BBC News, August 13, 2015, accessed June 12, 2016.
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7. Frontline, Martin Smith, The Rise of ISIS, Updated 2015, accessed June 2015,
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8. Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger, "As U.S. Focuses on ISIS and the Taliban, Al Qaeda Re-Emerges," New York Times, December 29, 2015, accessed May 29, 2016.
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9. Dan Lamothe, "'Probably the largest' al-Qaeda training camp ever destroyed in Afghanistan," The Washington Post, October 30, 2015, accessed June 21, 2016.
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10. Roula Khalaf, "The Deadly Contest between Isis and Al-Qaeda," The Financial Times, December 3, 2015, accessed May 29, 2016
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11. Ibid, Barnard and MacFarquhar.
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12. Roula Khalaf, "The Deadly Contest between Isis and Al-Qaeda," The Financial Times, December 3, 2015, accessed May 29, 2016
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13. Ibid, "The Deadly Contest."
14. Aaron Lin, Daniel Smith, and Ryan Pereira, “Discussion Point: The Prospective Military Power of Al Qaeda Affiliated Groups in the Syrian Conflict,” National Consortium For the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, December 18, 2013, accessed 6/20/16,