Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine two more final endings to the 'war on terror' than the popular revolts against the authoritarian regimes… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The centerpiece of the Bush administration's case for going to war in Iraq was Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a heretic by many Sunnis; al-Assad runs a… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
As Michael Scheuer, who ran the C.I.A.'s bin Laden unit until 1999, has pointed out, if bin Laden believed in Christmas, the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
President-elect Donald Trump has a host of national security challenges to deal with as he assumes office, from the resurgence of the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The war on terror, sometimes known as the 'Global War on Terror' or by the clunky acronym GWOT, became the lens through… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The sitting prime minister, Jose Aznar, who had strongly backed the U.S.-led Iraq War, was unseated by a challenger who then pulled… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Trump himself has not laid out a clear agenda on the national security issues that are the most pressing for the United… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein brutally repressed all forms of opposition to his regime, and before the Iraq War, al Qaeda had no… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Bush administration's approach to the war on terror collided badly with another of its doctrines, spreading democracy in the Middle East… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Imprisoned by its war on terror framework, the Bush administration supported Israel in a disastrous war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Russians have been waging wars with these separatists since the 19th century, but for obvious reasons, Chechen separatist terrorism tends to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
What bin Laden had hoped to achieve in Afghanistan in the post-9/11 period, which was to drag the United States into a… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Rather than making loose and unsubstantiated claims that Obama and Clinton created ISIS, it would behoove Trump if he advanced some real… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The civil war across the Middle East between the Shia and the Sunni empowers groups like ISIS and al Qaeda who claim… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
When Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force immediately after the 9/11 attacks, no one could have imagined this… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Mattis has been sharply critical of President Barack Obama's policies on Iran and Obama's capping of troop numbers and campaign end-dates in… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of trying to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to have done… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is a wise… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
