Longest War

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In the last decade Americas priorities have changed. National security has become the primary concern for citizens & a top priority for government officials. Billions of dollars have been spent fighting the war on terror & millions more have been spent by private citizens around the globe trying to understand how we got here. Investigative journalist & bestselling author of Holy War Inc. & The Osama bin Laden I Know Peter Bergen is the authority who can answer that question. One of few Westerners to ever sit down with Osama bin Laden Bergen is renowned for his analysis of al Qaeda & its evolution over the last decade. Now he is breaking the story open in a way that readers have never seen before. Bergen picks up where Lawrence Wrights The Looming Tower leaves off. He reveals the details of how al Qaeda has evolved since the 9/11 attacks & tells the parallel story of how the U.S. government has changed its own course in response. Bergen has unprecedented insight that comes through many channels: internal documents from both al Qaeda & U.S. counterterrorism offices in person interviews with al Qaeda members of the highest & lowest ranks hundreds of interviews conducted with senior officials in the White House Pentagon CIA & the FBI & his own experiences on the ground in Afghanistan. A Very Long War will be the definitive account of the war on terror--its failures & successes the major players & its likely future.