Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners
Quotes of the Day:
“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”
- Author David Levithan
“If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.”
- Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl
”When Americans lend a hand to one another, nothing is impossible. We’re not about what happened on 9/11. We’re about what happened on 9/12.”
-Jeff Parness, founder of New York Says Thank You
1. How America wasted its unipolar moment
2. What difference did 9/11 make?
3. Noncombatant Evacuation Operation - Afghanistan (Update)
4. History's 'what if' questions
5. The nobility of service in a post 9/11 world
6. Pakistan Is an Arsonist That Wants You to Think It’s a Firefighter
7. House committee demands answers on Afghanistan
8. U.S. Forces Were Training the Guinean Soldiers Who Took Off to Stage a Coup
9. NSW Wraps Up SOF Phase of MALABAR with Partner Nations
10. Beyond Forever War: A Smarter Counterterrorism Approach Is Now Within Reach
11. America Did Al-Qaeda’s Work for It
12. Pro-PRC Influence Campaign Expands to Dozens of Social Media Platforms, Websites, and Forums in at Least Seven Languages, Attempted to Physically Mobilize Protesters in the U.S.
13. Jacksonian America: The Sleeping Giant Awakened by 9/11
14. Opinion | Biden is embracing a redefinition of war — but not an alternative to war
15. How Hollywood Sold Out to China
16. What the U.S. Has Learned About Fighting Terror Since Sept. 11
17. Drastic changes to military pay, benefits needed to meet rising personnel costs: report
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