The U.S. Must Prepare to Withstand a Cyberattack
Congress gave the Biden administration two years to develop a strategy. One year in, there is little evidence that the work has started.
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How Oil Dependence Undermines America’s Effort to Stop the Iranian Bomb
Energy issues have figured prominently in Governor Romney's campaign. Achieving "North American energy independence" has been a central pillar of the 5-point economic plan that he's bee...
Op-eds
The Al Qaeda Factor, and the Fate of a Jihadi Group
The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West by Mitchell D. Silber. One reason terrorism watchers have often been wrong about some of the critical...
Op-eds
Terrorism, Economics, and the London Olympics
On July 25, I spoke on a panel at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies on the topic of Combating Olympic Terrorism (video of which can be found...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Round-Up, 2012
As we enter a new year, I wanted to outline the contours of, and analyze, a few issues that are likely to feature prominently in the fight between the U.S. and al Qaeda in 2012....
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Al-Qaeda Is Winning
Their ability to land large-scale attacks like that of September 11 might be eroded, but the group has another strategy.
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Al-Qaeda Isn’t Beaten Yet
Adecade after the 9/11 attacks, U.S. officials are openly declaring that victory over al-Qaeda is imminent. "Al-Qaeda is sort of on the ropes and taking a lot of shots to the body and the head,"...
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Don’t Get Cocky, America
Osama bin Laden's death is a significant blow for al Qaeda, removing a figurehead who had evaded the largest manhunt in world history for almost a decade, and who seemingly managed to remain...
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Is Yemen the New Pakistan?
Is Yemen the new Pakistan, which was the new Afghanistan, which was the new Saudi Arabia, which was the new Egypt for jihadists seeking to strike the West? The recent attempted cargo-plane bombin...
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More Rocket, Less Docket
‘We need to bring him to justice as soon as we can.” In a Fox News interview Sunday, that was John Brennan, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, talking about Ibrahim...