Event Archives: 2013

With the Taliban toppled in Afghanistan, hundreds of militants killed in U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, and the death of bin Laden last year, has the United States come to the end of the “War on Terror”? The New America Foundation’s National Security Studies Program and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies hosted a lively debate on October 16 on whether or not we have seen the defeat of al-Qaeda. Elizabeth Weingarten reports on highlights from the debate below:

The attack on the American mission in Benghazi once again highlighted the dangers the United States faces in a tumultuous region. The post-revolutionary government is too weak to impose its authority throughout the country as anti-Western movements proliferate and exploit the security vacuum to build their infrastructure. In Egypt, a young and inexperienced democratically elected government is trying to navigate between society's desire to distance itself from Washington and the economic needs that have forced Cairo to historically seek a superpower benefactor.

With the country’s fiscal challenges at the center of the national conversation, little attention has been focused on the candidates’ national security policies. With less than a month remaining in the campaign season, join the Center for a New American Security, the American Enterprise Institute, and the New America Foundation for a debate between top-level surrogates of the Obama and Romney presidential campaigns. Dov S.