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Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 6 minute read Published 8:00 AM EST, Sun December 15, 2024 — Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be secretary of defense, has an unconventional resume for the position, which in recent years has been held by retired four-star generals such as Jim Mattis and Lloyd Austin and by […]

Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 5 minute read Published 12:08 PM EST, Mon December 9, 2024 CNN — The US State Department is advertising an up to $10 million reward for information leading to the capture of Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, who the agency first designated as a terrorist more than a decade ago, saying his […]

Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 18 minute read Published 5:30 AM EST, Sun November 17, 2024 CNN — “When America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold” is a saying used to describe how the massive American economy can affect global businesses, but it also applies to foreign policy in the Trump era. […]

Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 4 minute read Published 9:00 AM EDT, Sat October 19, 2024 — Former President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US military should be used to deal with “the enemy from within” on Election Day has reignited concerns about what he might ask US forces to do if he wins a […]

Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 11 minute read Published 2:00 AM EDT, Tue October 15, 2024 Editor’s Note: The story below contains explicit language. CNN — The arrival of a new Bob Woodward book has a well-established choreography; enterprising reporters get hold of copies of the heavily embargoed volume a week or so ahead of […]

Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 3 minute read Updated 6:54 AM EDT, Fri October 11, 2024 The impact of two catastrophic hurricanes in the last two weeks has underlined that rapid climate change is a threat that can do far more damage to American lives than traditional antagonists such as terrorists and authoritarian states. The […]

10:40 p.m. EDT, October 1, 2024 Analysis: Sen. Vance’s nonsensical claims on Iran’s nuclear program From CNN’s Peter Bergen During the debate, Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Waltz clashed on the issue of Iran. Vance claimed that former President Donald Trump had made the world “more secure” by taking the United States out of […]

Killing of Nasrallah is a key prize for Israel, but it’s too early to write off Hezbollah Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 4 minute read Published 12:00 AM EDT, Sun September 29, 2024 On Saturday, Hezbollah confirmed that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is dead after Israel announced he was killed in an airstrike in Beirut […]

From CNN’s Peter Bergen During the debate, former President Donald Trump pinned the blame for the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago on the Biden-Harris administration during which 13 American servicemembers were killed by an ISIS suicide bomber along with some 170 Afghans on August 26, 2021. There is some merit to Trump’s […]

Peter Bergen Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 4 minute read Published 1:00 AM EDT, Sun September 8, 2024 At a Fox News town hall on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump previewed some of the themes that we will likely hear more from him on the campaign trail and during his September 10 debate with Vice […]