World War in Syria answers questions that will have continued relevance beyond the country’s borders for years to come. What were the West’s motives for pursuing the Syrian state’s overthrow? How will precedents set in the conflict impact international norms with global reverberations? Why has Syria been vulnerable to instigation of insurgency, to information warfare and later to economic sanctions in a way that other Western adversaries are not? How has the conflict reflected the way warfare has evolved over recent decades, and under what conditions is it likely to conclude in the coming ten years?

“Impressive in its scholarship, pondered in its judgements, above all searing in its dissection of Western powers' war on Syria waged over many decades, the book is a must-have on the bookshelves of any serious fair-minded student of Syria.”  PETER FORD, British Ambassador to Syria from 2003 to 2006.
"A. B. Abrams' book World War in Syria is an impressive and detailed historical analysis of the strategic context and interests which led to the decade long war on the remaining outpost of Arab nationalism in the Middle East. It cuts through the shallow interventionist slogans which fuel most recent western discussion about the dirty war on Syria." TIM ANDERSON, author of Axis of Resistance