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Chatter: Former National Security Advisor Steve Hadley's Reflections on Presidential Transitions

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Transition Memos on the War on Terror and the War of Ideas

After 9-11, the intelligence community view was that this was likely to be the first of a series of al-Qaeda mass casualties attacks. That led to a whole lot of activity on actual tactical means to fight al-Qaeda in particular and institutions being created through legislation and executive action. In his new book, Peter Bergen looks back at these transition memos as well as efforts to change the fight against terrorism from a shooting war to a war of ideas.

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