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August 2011

The U.S. vs. al Qaeda

A history of the War on Terror through three decades of the best Foreign Affairs coverage.

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21 Articles

Table of Contents

I

Contents

The War on Terror in Retrospect

Anatomy of an Overreaction

The Strategy of Terrorism

November/December 1998

November/December 1998

License to Kill: Usama bin Ladin's Declaration of Jihad

March/April 1999

March/April 1999

It Could Happen Here: Facing the New Terrorism

November/December 1999

November/December 1999

The Taliban: Exporting Extremism

November/December 2001

November/December 2001

The Sentry’s Solitude

January/February 2002

January/February 2002

Somebody Else’s Civil War

Michael Scott Doran

January/February 2002

January/February 2002

America the Vulnerable

Stephen E. Flynn

March/April 2002

March/April 2002

The Reluctant Imperialist: Terrorism, Failed States, and the Case for American Empire

Sebastian Mallaby

September/October 2002

September/October 2002

America’s Imperial Ambition

G. John Ikenberry

January/February 2004

January/February 2004

The Law of War in the War on Terror

Washington Abuse of “Enemy Combatants”

Fighting a War under Its Rules

Combatants or Criminals? How Washington Should Handle Terrorists

Ruth Wedgwood & Kenneth Roth

January/February 2006

January/February 2006

Grading the War on Terrorism

Asking the right questions

Richard A. Falkenrath

September/October 2006

September/October 2006

Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?

The Myth of the Omnipresent Enemy

Al Qaeda Strikes Back

November/December 2007

November/December 2007

Can the War on Terror Be Won?

How to Fight the Right War

Philip H. Gordon

July/August 2008

July/August 2008

Terror and the Law

The Limits of Judicial Reasoning in the Post-9/11 World

Curtis A. Bradley

March/April 2011

March/April 2011

How al Qaeda Works

What the Organization’s Subsidiaries Say About Its Strength

Recalibrating Homeland Security

Mobilizing American Society to Prepare for Disaster

Al Qaeda Without Bin Laden

How Terrorists Cope With their Leader’s Death

September/October 2011

September/October 2011

Al Qaeda’s Challenge

The Jihadists’ War With Islamist Democrats

William McCants

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