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Home page  About CSIS Programs Five Years After 9/11: Accomplishments and Continuing Challenges
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Five Years After 9/11: Accomplishments and Continuing Challenges
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 Five years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States and its allies hold a mixed record of achievement in executing the global war on terror. Domestic security and intelligence operations have improved, but the nature of the terrorist threat is changing dramatically, complicating efforts to secure homelands and defeat the groups and ideologies that nurture terrorist movements around the world.
CSIS has undertaken a project to assess the degree to which a wide range of policies and practices enacted by government and business over the last five years have increased security and diminished the threat of terrorism in the United States. CSIS experts identify both significant accomplishments and continuing challenges in the U.S. conduct of the global war on terrorism in six critical areas:
Click here to download the entire Five Years After 9/11 document.
A book, Five Years After 9/11: An Assessment of America's War on Terror, expands on this overview and offers recommendations for achieving success in each critical area. It is available here.
CSIS hosted a day of discussions about the assessment that not only featured the CSIS experts who worked on the project, but also outside authorities. Listen to those sessions here:
- Welcome: President and CEO John Hamre
- Key Findings from the CSIS 9/11 Report
Audio (mp3, 37:53) | Video (wmv, 37:55)
- The Fight against Global Jihad: A Status Report
Audio (mp3, 1:24:59) | Video (wmv, 1:25:43)
- Daniel Benjamin, former senior fellow, CSIS's International Security Program
- Marc Sageman, senior associate at CSIS; author of Understanding Terrorist Networks
- Prepared for What? Transforming Homeland Security for the Long War
Audio (mp3, 1:00:43) | Video (wmv, 1:02:36)
- Evolving Challenges in the War on Terror
Audio (mp3, 1:09:01) | Video (wmv, 1:08:59)
- Kurt Campbell, former CSIS senior vice president
- Philip Zelikow, counselor, Department of State; former executive director, 9/11 commission
- The Way Forward: Strategies and Capabilities for the Long War
Audio (mp3, 1:17:10) | Video (wmv, 1:17:25)
 Julianne Smith, a senior fellow at CSIS and deputy director of its International Security Program, discussed the project in more detail in an audio Q&A available here.
 Thomas Sanderson, a fellow at CSIS and deputy director of CSIS's Transnational Threats Project, testified on the issue before the House International Relations Committee's Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation. Read his testimony here (.pdf).
CSIS has a number of other resources available in this field:
- Jon Alterman, Director and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program
- Daniel Benjamin, Former Senior Fellow, International Security Program
- Anthony Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy
- Arnaud de Borchgrave, Director and Senior Adviser, Transnational Threats Project
- Mary DeRosa, Former Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Policy Program
- Robert Einhorn, Senior Adviser, International Security Program
- Gerald Epstein, Senior Fellow, Homeland Security Program
- Michele Flournoy, Senior Associate, International Security Program
- David Heyman, Director and Senior Fellow, Homeland Security Program
- James Lewis, Director and Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Policy Program
- John MacGaffin, Senior Adviser, Transnational Threats Project
- Sarah Mendelson, Director, Human Rights and Security Initiative
- Clark Murdock, Senior Adviser, International Security Program
- Erik Peterson, Senior Vice President and Director, Global Strategy Institute
- Thomas Sanderson, Deputy Director and Fellow, Transnational Threats Project
- Julianne Smith, Director and Senior Fellow, Europe Program
- Karin von Hippel, Co-Director, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
- Anne Witkowsky, Senior Fellow, Homeland Security Program
- Jon Wolfsthal, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
- Christine Wormuth, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
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