Barack Obama Administration
Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success
A close reading of Osama bin Laden’s correspondence offers a portrait of the U.S. “war on terror” as it was seen through the eyes of its chief target.
The Longest Wars
Richard Holbrooke helped normalize U.S. relations with China; served as U.S. ambassador to a newly reunified Germany and then to the United Nations; and, most famously, negotiated the 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. But he began and ended his career struggling with how to resolve two American wars: first in Vietnam, then in Afghanistan.