Biden and Netanyahu Speak as Israel Prepares Iran Response
Anticipating an Israeli retaliation against Iran for its October 1 missile barrage against Israel, U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Bob Woodward
Saudi Arabia
Enhancing Special Operations for Sustained Counterterrorism Operations
Note to Mohammed bin Salman: Stop Digging Yourself Deeper
The Saudis need to get on Biden’s good side. Obvious places to start include releasing women’s rights activists.
Op-eds
America’s Biggest Adversaries Have Been Mostly Silent on Biden’s Election
China and Russia are waiting and seeing, but the Taliban has acknowledged the president-elect.
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Documenting al Qaeda’s Durability
More than 16 years after the September 11, 2001, hijackings, America remains at war with jihadist groups around the globe. From South Asia through the heart of the Middle East and into West Afric...
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Is Al-Qaeda Defeated?
Its ideology is not — and ideology matters.
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Cheney Got It Right on Syrian Nukes
The CIA and Bob Woodward got it wrong.
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The Right Call on the Syrian Threat
Co-authored by Elliott Abrams, Eliot Cohen, and Eric Edelman Bob Woodward...
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Osama Bin Laden: Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theorist
Al Qaeda has released a tape commemorating the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. According to the invaluable SITE Intelligence Group, the tape includes a s...
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Obama’s Reasonable Suspicion of Pakistan
In an interview with President Obama on Sunday night’s 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft asked: Right now, it certainly...the location of the compound just raises all sorts of question...
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WikiLeaks, Iran, and Obama
The latest dump of classified WikiLeaks documents shows a few important facts: (1) The United States military unavoidably classifies a mountain of documents because of the easy loquacity of moder...
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Two Sides of the Jihadi Coin
As I write this, European police are searching for “hit teams” plotting attacks against civilians in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden. Why would al-Qaeda plan such strikes now? Tha...
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We Have Met the Enemy . . .
Speaking publicly about the role of Iran in Afghanistan--which is substantial, and about which we have considerable information--seems to be taboo for our current leaders. This is neither new nor...
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Trial in Error
Could someone please explain to me why Scooter Libby is the only person on trial in the Valerie Plame leak investigation? Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald charged Vice President Che...
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Too Much Make-Believe
In the early years of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia was effectively cut off from all sources of raw film stock. Luckily for the Soviets, cheap copies of the silent films imported during the wa...
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Who Lost Zarqawi? The True Intelligence Failure
By: Andrew Apostolou. In recent days, the Wall Street Journal and Slate have charged that the U.S. government fumbled an opportunity to kill master terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqaw...
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Review of Inside Centcom: The Unvarnished Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
By: Andrew Apostolou. Michael DeLong's memoir of his three years as deputy commander of Central Command (CentCom) is fascinating and frustrating. Fascinating, because CentC...
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Lying Liars and the Big, Fat Lies They Tell
And the women who love them?
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Blix the Blind: Book Review of Hans Blix’s Disarming Iraq
Authored by Andrew Apostolou Speaking to the U.N. Security Council on Jan. 27, 2003, Hans Blix, the U.N.'s chief arms inspector, criticized Saddam Hussein's regime for cooperat...