Al Shabaab, a militant Islamist group with ties to al Qaeda operating in Somalia, poses a real and imminent danger to American and international security.

U.S. military training missions are an economical way to promote security and good governance and to support our friends and allies and prepare them to tackle these problems on their own, as well as help other countries in the region. 

Our national security would be better served if the United States captured al-Asiri and kept him alive for questioning, so we can find out what he knows.

For Barack Obama’s supporters on the left, to say his policy choices have been a disappointment would be an understatement. Explaining how this came about is Jack Goldsmith’s provocative new book.

Military and counterinsurgency actions are tactical, not strategic responses to terrorism; long-term reliance on belligerent tactics is counterproductive.

If there is one success story since 9/11, it has been the efforts to combat terror finance. If military action is sometimes akin to conducting surgery with an axe, efforts to dry up sources of funding are like wielding a scalpel.

Panelists discussed an AEI Critical Threats Project report, "Al Qaeda's Operating Environments: A New Approach to the War on Terror," which assesses the different environments where al Qaeda and its franchises operate and their importance to developing a comprehensive US strategy for winning the war on terror.

Ten years after 9/11, Americans fear there will be another attack. They also believe America is safer due to the government's efforts and that the initial decision to send troops to Iraq was the right one.