| International Standard Book Number |
1324124067 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781324124061 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Bergen, Peter, 1962- author.
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| Title Statement |
All the presidents' wars : twenty-five years of America's war on terror / Peter Bergen with David Sterman.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xxiv, 401 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Note on transliteration and note on sourcing -- Prologue -- 9/11 -- Toppling the Taliban -- Tora Bora -- The war on terrorism goes global -- Mission accomplished -- Al-Qaeda revives -- 'We are out of Schlitz' -- Surge -- The return of the Taliban -- The good war -- The drone presidency -- Operation Neptune Spear -- Trying to wind down the 'War on Terror' -- Obama's war against ISIS -- Trump's war on terrorism -- The art of the giveaway -- The Taliban, victorious -- Strategy and tactics -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
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| Summary, Etc. |
2026 is the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, the most devastating attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor. Within days, the United States began to declare its war on terror: "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists," President George W. Bush proclaimed. The resulting war on terror cost trillions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives, a series of misguided wars, and the damaged perception of American power. And yet despite its blunders, this campaign has kept America safe from large-scale foreign attack. Based on hundreds of interviews, All the Presidents' Wars focuses on critical decisions of four successive presidents -- Bush, Obama, Biden, and Trump -- and their global consequences. One of the few journalists to interview Osama bin Laden and have unparalleled access to the US intelligence community, Peter Bergen covers the history that might have been avoided: the many terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda and its affiliated groups around the world; the rise of al-Qaeda in Iraq, largely responsible for the Iraqi civil war in the mid-2000s; the birth of ISIS; the resurrection of Afghanistan's Taliban; and Trump's war with Iran. From the failure to capture and the eventual killing of Osama bin Laden to the disastrous rise of sectarian violence in the Middle East, Bergen traces the profound ramifications of this epoch in American life. All the Presidents' Wars also explores the innovations and unintended consequences of each presidency's military and political decisions, including debates over military intervention and withdrawal; the tactics of special operations units, armed drones, and armies of counterterrorism partners; and whether the idea of war ever properly captured the defining conflict of recent American foreign policy. All the Presidents' Wars is essential reading to understand America's devastating war on terror and to avoid the mistakes of the past.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Peter Bergen's All the Presidents' Wars examines U.S. counterterrorism and foreign policy after 9/11 through the presidencies of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. Drawing on interviews and intelligence sources, it analyzes the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the rise of al-Qaeda and ISIS, the killing of Osama bin Laden, the resurgence of the Taliban, and U.S.-Iran tensions. The book assesses the military and political decisions, strategies, consequences, and costs of the post-9/11 "war on terror," while considering lessons for future U.S. foreign policy.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Obama, Barack.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Trump, Donald, 1946-
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Biden, Joseph R., Jr.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Terrorism Prevention. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Terrorism Government policy United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Foreign relations Middle East.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Sterman, David (Policy analyst), author.
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