...Anthony N. Celso The Barack Obama administration’s May 2013 assessment of al Qaeda’s weakness and fracturing in the post-bin Laden era has been greeted with indignation by both liberals and conservatives. They believe al Qaeda is stronger than ever in the wake of the Arab Spring. These critics...

...Gordon N. Bardos Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2002 Gordon N. Bardos is assistant director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Balkan Blowback? Osama bin Laden and Southeastern Europe Gordon N. Bardos Our enemy...

... into the monumental sym- bols of American power and who saw themselves not as terrorists but as war- riors in the international Islamic “jihad against Jews and Crusaders” called into being by Osama bin Laden in 1998. David Binder is a retired Washington, D.C.–based...

..., and in the wider Middle East, in particular. While it will likely never be announced as concluded, the Global War on Terror is effectively over, due to four separate but related reasons: the killing of Osama bin Laden, the perceived failure of counterinsurgency as an effective policy instrument, the significant...

... conservative states, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, played prominent roles in the implementation of the Eisenhower Doctrine, yet while US policymakers were eager to mold King Saud bin Abdulaziz al-Saud into a regional leader, they were decidedly ambivalent toward the ambitions of the Hashemite regime in Iraq...

...Anthony N. Celso The political transformations under way in the Arab world and the killing of Osama bin Laden raise serious questions about al Qaeda’s long-term viability. The secular-liberal Arab Spring protest movement appears to be winning the war of ideas over al Qaeda’s violent religious...

.... Reviewed by Vincent M. Cannistraro Imperial Hubris is an important work by the foremost intelligence analyst on al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden in the US government, who worked with distinction on the related topics of radical Islam and terrorism for several years. It is an antidote to the illusions...

... by Vincent M. Cannistraro Imperial Hubris is an important work by the foremost intelligence analyst on al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden in the US government, who worked with distinction on the related topics of radical Islam and terrorism for several years. It is an antidote to the illusions on which...