A Very Long War
History of the War on Terror and the Battles with al Qaeda Since 9/11
1st Edition
Published on 11. January 2011
304 pages
978-1-4391-6059-6 (ISBN)
Description
New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen's definitive account of al Qaeda's evolution since 9/11 and the US government's responses.
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Peter Bergen is the author or editor of nine books, including three New York Times bestsellers and four Washington Post best nonfiction books of the year. A Vice President at New America, Bergen is a professor at Arizona State University and a national security analyst for CNN. He has testified before congressional committees eighteen times about national security issues and has held teaching positions at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Maps
- Dedication
- Author's Note
- Part I: Hubris
- Chapter 1: Holy Tuesday
- Chapter 2: Explaining 9/11
- Chapter 3: Blinking Red
- Chapter 4: Kicking Ass
- Chapter 5: The Great Escape
- Chapter 6: The Destruction of the Base
- Chapter 7: The Gloves Came Off
- Chapter 8: Home Front: The First Bush Term
- Chapter 9: Building the Case for War with Iraq
- Chapter 10: The War of Error
- Chapter 11: Almost Losing the War the United States Thought It Had Won
- Chapter 12: Al-Qaeda 2.0
- Chapter 13: Al-Qaeda's Quixotic Quest for Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Part II: Nemesis?
- Chapter 14: The United States of Jihad
- Chapter 15: Pakistan: The New Base
- Chapter 16: The Fall of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Rise of an Iraqi State
- Chapter 17: The Jihad Within
- Chapter 18: The End of the "War on Terror"?
- Chapter 19: Obama's War
- Chapter 20: The Long Hunt
- Note on Sources
- Interviewees
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
- Photo Creditors
- Back Cover
