Meeting

Foreign Affairs September/October 2021 Issue Launch: Who Won the War on Terror?

Thursday, September 9, 2021
Marko Djurica/REUTERS
Speakers
Daniel L. Byman

Professor, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Senior Fellow, Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution; Author, Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad

Nelly Lahoud

Senior Fellow, International Security Program, New America; Author, The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth About Al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family

Presider
Justin Vogt

Executive Editor, Foreign Affairs; @justin_vogt

As the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks approaches, Foreign Affairs Executive Editor Justin Vogt discusses who won the war on terror and what it means for the United States moving forward.

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