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Summary: On the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States awoke to find itself at war. If that much was clear, many other things were not — including the identity and nature of the enemy, the location of the battleground, and the strategy and tactics necessary for victory. This collection brings today's most authoritative thinking to bear on these and other issues at the heart of the nation's preeminent security challenge.

". . .Indispensable. . ."
—Kenneth Pollack, Director of Research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution

"The United States is at war, and there is no better introduction to that war. . ."
—Eliot A. Cohen, Director of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

". . .essential reading. . ."
—Bruce Hoffman, author of Inside Terrorism

CONTENTS

Click on the articles in this book from Foreign Affairs in order to read summary and preview.

Introduction by Gideon Rose

I. The Enemy

"We Have Some Planes"
The 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 1-14

"Overview of the Enemy"
9/11 Commission Staff Statement No. 15

"Outline of the 9/11 Plot"
9/11 Commission Staff Statement No. 16

"Somebody Else's Civil War"
Michael Doran, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002

"Inside Al Qaeda's Hard Drive"
Alan Cullison, The Atlantic Monthly, Sep. 2004

"Why Do They Hate Us?"
Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, October 15, 2001

"Terror, Islam, and Democracy"
Ladan & Roya Boroumand, Journal of Democracy, Spring 2002

"Left, Right, and Beyond"
Walter Laqueur, How Did This Happen? pp. 71-82

II. The War

"Counterterrorism Before 9/11"
9/11 Commission Staff Statement No. 8

"Address to Congress, 9/20/2001"
George W. Bush

"A Flawed Masterpiece"
Michael O'Hanlon, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2002

"The Jihadist Threat to Pakistan"
Stephen Cohen, Washington Quarterly, Sum. 2003

"Saudi Arabia and the War on Terror"
F. Gregory Gause, from A Practical Guide to Winning the War on Terrorism

"Is Southeast Asia the Second Front?"
John Gershman, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2002

"Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terror"
Thomas Carothers, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2003

"Democracy Promotion"
Paula J. Dobriansky and Thomas Carothers, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2003

III. The Homefront

"America the Vulnerable"
Stephen E. Flynn, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002

"Fixing Intelligence"
Richard K. Betts, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002

"The Law of War in the War on Terror"
Kenneth Roth, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2004

"Combatants or Criminals?"
Ruth Wedgwood & Kenneth Roth, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2004

IV. Less or More?

"What's In A Name?"
Michael Howard, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002

"The Wrong War"
Grenville Byford, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2002

"An End to Appeasement"
Max Boot, The Weekly Standard, Feb. 10, 2003

V. The State of Play

"The Protean Enemy"
Jessica Stern, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003

"Counterterrorism After Al Qaeda"
Paul Pillar, Washington Quarterly, Sum. 2004

"Not a Diversion"
Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Weekly Standard, April 12-19, 2004

"Bush's Lost Year"
James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly, October 2004

"Afghanistan, Iraq: Two Wars Collide"
Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer, Washington Post, October 22, 2004