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Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
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Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
In 2001 the People's Liberation Army fielded a handful of fourth-generation fighters, most bought from Russia or built under Russian licence. It was not...
The consequences of 9/11 ran straight into the procurement system. The Navy, unable to explain its role in a war on terror, committed to...
Nothing about it was arranged. Andy Card asked the president whether he wanted to say something and Bush asked whether it would be appropriate....
Michael Rubin's argument at 25 years is that almost nothing was learned. The hijackers were neither poor nor occupied, yet the assumption that grievance...
Twenty-five years on, the familiar verdict is that American intelligence agencies failed to warn. Lieutenant General Wallace "Chip" Gregson argues the failure was broader...
Ignorance and arrogance on the part of U.S. leaders congealed in the years leading to 9/11 into a dangerously false sense of national security.
Turkey has become in the 21st century what Saudi Arabia was in the 20th: A petri dish for extremism and an engine of support for global...
Editor’s Note: We present a little alternative history, a what-if that looks at if President Bill Clinton had resigned during the Monica Lewinsky scandal....
Speaking at a forum in Uzbekistan last month, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declared, “Pakistan has been a victim of terrorism. I don’t have...