Events for The Long War Journal
Policy Under Fire: How Should the US Handle the Non-Criminal Detention of Violent Non-State Actors?
A Conversation with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Dawit Giorgis, Raha Wala and Ben Wittes
Militant fighters have been captured during the war in Mali. This raises questions about whether the American and European positions on preventive detention rest on shaky foundations. Does the fact that Western nations don't do preventive detentions in some way encourage killing rather than capturing enemy forces?
Claudia Rosett Presides at Conversation with Amb Frederick Barton
A Conversation with Ambassador Frederick Barton
Council on Foreign Relations
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Joins Conversation on Mali
Foreign Policy and the Pulitzer Center present a conversation with Peter Chilson, author of We Never Knew Exactly Where: Dispatches From the Lost Country of Mali, a masterful blend of reportage and history from one of the world's newest front lines in the war on terror -- the endangered African country of Mali.
Is Al-Qaeda Dead? An Experts Debate
In Collaboration with the New America Foundation
While some counterterrorism analysts and officials say that U.S. military efforts over the past 11 years have resulted in the defeat of al-Qaeda, others argue that the terrorist organization is more durable than that. The successes won by the CIA drone program in Pakistan’s tribal regions and the symbolic killing of Osama bin Laden might be tempered by the growing strength of al-Qaeda's affiliates in countries such as Yemen, Somalia, and Libya. On the other hand, many point out that al-Qaeda has failed to carry out a large-scale terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11.
Is al-Qaeda Dead?
A Conversation with Ambassador Husain Haqqani
Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States
And featuring FDD experts Reuel Marc Gerecht and Bill Roggio