- Terrorism – War on terror — Round 3 – Andrew J. Bacevich writes that even as our troops march hither and yon, America seems to be losing the thread in an ‘era of persistent conflict.’

- Military Times – The sixth and final part of Sean Naylor’s look at the war on terror in Africa.

- Army Times – Part 5 of Sean Naylor’s look at the war on terror in Africa.

- Army Times – Fourth in a series by Sean Naylor. Often-frustrating search for Harun Fazul combined high-tech gear, low tech human intelligence and courage

- Army Times – The third in a series by Sean Naylor looking at U.S. military operations in the Horn of Africa after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

- Army Times – The second in a series by Sean Naylor looking at U.S. military activity in the Horn of Africa.

- Army Times – First of a series by Sean Naylor. Clandestine SEAL mission planted cameras, but little came out of the images.

- Wall Street Journal – Andrew Krepinevich writes that the world’s vast undersea energy infrastructure—oil and gas platforms, wellheads, pipelines and pumps—is now vulnerable to attack by cheap submarines and unmanned vehicles.

- New Yorker – What happened that night in Abbottabad.

New York Times – The Coming Swarm

John Arquilla on how we should be combatting terrorism today – fighting swarms with swarms.

New York Times Magazine – The Saharan Conundrum

Terrorism experts feared that North Africa would be the next Afghanistan: a haven, and a launching pad, for Al Qaeda. Why hasn’t it turned out that way?

New York Times – ‘Terror’ Is The Enemy

Philip Bobbitt gives his views on how the war on terror should be waged in the future.

Foreign Affairs – Marc Sageman claims that al Qaeda’s leadership is finished and today’s terrorist threat comes primarily from below. But the terrorist elites are alive and well, and ignoring the threat they pose will have disastrous consequences.
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New York Review of Books – Ahmed Rashid reviews the current state of the jihad against the West.
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New Yorker – The making of an Al Qaeda homegrown.
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Foreign Affairs – Despite all the ominous warnings of wily terrorists and imminent attacks, there has been neither a successful strike nor a close call in the United States since 9/11. The reasonable — but rarely heard — explanation is that there are no terrorists within the United States, and few have the means or the inclination to strike from abroad.
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Washington Post – Ahmed Rashid shows how in the five years since Sept. 11, the tactics and strategy of Islamic extremists fighting U.S. or NATO forces have improved dramatically. To a degree they could not approach five years ago, the extremists are successfully facing off against the overwhelming technological apparatus that modern armies can bring to bear against guerrillas. Islamic extremists are winning the war by not losing, and they are steadily expanding to create new battlefronts.
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Washington Post – The status of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
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New Yorker – An interesting roundtable discussion on the war on terror, and whether America is stronger now.
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Washington Post – Former Navy Secretary and 9/11 Commission member John Lehman reviews the progress of the Long War to date???
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