In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, one question has been on the mind of every American: "How did this happen?" This book seeks to answer this question in all its critical aspects: the motives and actions of the terrorists, the status of our military, the context of the Middle East, airport security, and diplomatic pressures. It also provides readers with an authoritative but accessible account of the issues that led to the present crisis-not as a symposium of opinion, but as a series of narratives on different aspects of the situation, providing perspective, information, and sound interpretation.

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Introduction / James F. Hoge,Jr., and Gideon Rose -- The organization men: anatomy of a terrorist attack / Brian M. Jenkins -- The uneasy imperium: Pax Americana in the Middle East / Fouad Ajami -- Somebody else's civil war: ideology, rage, and the assault on America / Michael Scott Doran -- Was it inevitable?: Islam through history / Karen Armstrong -- Left, right, and beyond: the changing face of terror / Walter Laqueur -- Graveyard of empires: Afghanistan's treacherous peaks / Milton Bearden -- The restless region: the brittle states of Central and South Asia / Rajan Menon -- The kingdom in the middle: Saudi Arabia's double game / F. Gregory Gause III -- Commandeering the Palestinian cause: Bin Laden's belated concern / Samuel R. Berger and Mona Sutphen -- Strangling the hydra: targeting Al Qaeda's finances / William F. Wechsler -- Intelligence test : the limits of prevention / Richard K. Betts -- The all-too-friendly skies: security as an afterthought / Gregg Easterbrook -- The unguarded homeland: a study in malign neglect / Stephen E. Flynn -- Government's challenge: getting serious about terrorism / Joseph S. Nye, Jr. -- Germ wars: the biological threat from abroad / Richard Butler -- Countering bioterrorism : who's in charge? / Laurie Garrett -- The new security mantra : prevention, deterrence, defense / William J. Perry -- Waging the new war: what's next for the U.S. Armed Forces / Wesley K. Clark -- Diplomacy in wartime: new priorities and alignments / Michael Mandelbaum -- Stirred but not shaken: the economic repercussions / Martin N. Baily -- The home front: American society responds to the new war / Alan Wolfe -- The Cold War is finally over: the true significance of the attacks / Anatol Lieven -- The return of history: what September 11 hath wrought / Fareed Zakaria.