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The dangers of TATP bombs can be seen in the case of Matthew Rugo and Curtis Jetton, 21-year-old roo... PETER L. BERGEN The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if w... PETER L. BERGEN The reason that Islamist militants can assert that jihad is necessary against the perceived enemies ... PETER L. BERGEN A key flaw of the Obama administration's approach to Afghanistan has been constantly announcing ... PETER L. BERGEN Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American ci... PETER L. BERGEN Rather than making loose and unsubstantiated claims that Obama and Clinton created ISIS, it would be... PETER L. BERGEN If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable t... PETER L. BERGEN ISIS may be a perversion of Islam, but Islamic it is, just as Christian beliefs about the sanctity o... PETER L. BERGEN Trump displays many of the traits of a proto-fascist, and he is also part of a wave of right-wing na... PETER L. BERGEN When Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force immediately after the 9/11 atta... PETER L. BERGEN Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Su... PETER L. BERGEN For many, embracing the ideology of Osama bin Laden or ISIS allowed them to become the heroes of the... PETER L. BERGEN Pakistan's key leaders have succumbed to the assassin's bullet or bomb or the hangman's ... PETER L. BERGEN I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani ... PETER L. BERGEN Trump himself has not laid out a clear agenda on the national security issues that are the most pres... PETER L. BERGEN ISIS' key social media-encrypted platform is Telegram, which is engineered by a Berlin-based tec... PETER L. BERGEN Adding to your list of enemies is never a sound strategy, yet ISIS' ferocious campaign against t... PETER L. BERGEN President Obama and a small team of senior national security officials were in the unusual position ... PETER L. BERGEN In Syria, a no-fly zone targeted at Assad's air force and safe zones for refugees fleeing the fi... PETER L. BERGEN Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American l... PETER L. BERGEN The war on terror, sometimes known as the 'Global War on Terror' or by the clunky acronym GW... PETER L. BERGEN European countries simply do not have the ideological framework the United States has in the shape o... PETER L. BERGEN Trump, of course, has been very wrong in the past about important issues such as President Barack Ob... PETER L. BERGEN The Second Amendment is, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the fou... PETER L. BERGEN Trump has long been a fan of Vladimir Putin but seems to be unaware that Russia's goal in Syria ... PETER L. BERGEN Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a here... PETER L. BERGEN Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical ... PETER L. BERGEN Trump has long said he favors a 'safe zone' in Syria to prevent Basher al Assad's regime... PETER L. BERGEN The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States in... PETER L. BERGEN President-elect Donald Trump has a host of national security challenges to deal with as he assumes o... PETER L. BERGEN One only has to look at the debacle that has unfolded in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops at... PETER L. BERGEN Trump's pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hu... PETER L. BERGEN The Nazis and the Khmer Rouge went to great lengths to hide their crimes against humanity. Instead, ... PETER L. BERGEN Common sense would tell you that the idea that Saudi Arabia was paying for bin Laden's expenses ... PETER L. BERGEN Bush administration officials, of course, deny that they didn't take the threat urgently enough,... PETER L. BERGEN Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitud... PETER L. BERGEN During the campaign, Trump in many ways repudiated President Obama's national security and forei... PETER L. BERGEN Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key ... PETER L. BERGEN Mattis has been sharply critical of President Barack Obama's policies on Iran and Obama's ca... PETER L. BERGEN Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to... PETER L. 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