Peter Bergen

It hasn't been too often in the past couple of years that you could write about good news from Pakistan. But if there is a silver lining to the atrocities that have plagued the country in the past several years, it is the fact that the Pakistani public, government and military are increasingly seeing the jihadist militants on their territory in a hostile light.

Peter Bergen, a CNN terrorism analyst, said Saturday's attack shows the extent to which lessons from last year's attack have been implemented. ...

Peter Bergen is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation research institute. He said al-Qaida is still capable of killing hundreds of Americans overseas, ...

Senator Kerry, Senator Lugar and other members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today.

Peter Bergen, a CNN terrorism analyst, called the repetition "a huge problem." "It is suposed to be a lessons-learned exercise," Bergen said. ...

However analysts such as Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution and author Peter Bergen point out that counter-terrorism was in essence the failed ...

On the other hand, advocates of the proposed new strategy, like Peter Bergen, an expert on Islamic terrorism, invoke America's “obligation” to the Afghan ...

David Loyn, developing world correspondent for the BBC and author of In Afghanistan: Two Hundred Years of British, Russian, and American Occupation, expounded upon 200 years of Afghan history as being useful in understanding the problems the U.S. and NATO currently face there. After declaring that clear thinking is needed on Afghanistan, and apparently not currently forthcoming from the Obama Administration, Loyn described his own ten points the U.S. must consider when planning its next move in the country. The two primary

The top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, is right to warn that efforts to rebuild that country depend on winning the "struggle to gain the support of the people." And few issues do more to stoke the resentment of ordinary Afghans than the tens of billions of dollars of foreign aid from which they have seen little or no benefit. They see legions of Westerners sitting in the backs of S.U.V.'s clogging the streets of Kabul and… more