Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America’s War Against Terrorism (1988), by David C. Martin and John Walcott. The Reagan administration’s prosecution of America’s first— frustratingly unsuccessful and inchoate—war on global terrorism. … More »
Insurgents in Iraq are forging improbable alliances to fight what some analysts call a "netwar." The United States needs to adapt—and to relearn some old lessons… More »
First you feel nervous about riding the bus. Then you wonder about going to a mall. Then you think twice about sitting for long at your favorite café. Then nowhere seems safe. Terrorist groups have a strategy—to shrink to nothing the areas in which people move freely—and suicide bombers, inexpensive and reliably lethal, are their latest weapons. Israel has learned to recognize and disrupt the steps on the path to suicide attacks. We must learn too… More »
Gathering "good intelligence" against terrorists is an inherently brutish enterprise, involving methods a civics class might not condone. Should we care?… More »
U.S. counterterrorism may be overly preoccupied with biological weapons—which have a rather poor track record… More »
How the terrorists stopped terrorism… More »
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