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Fifteen Years After 9/11: Much Accomplished, Much to be Done

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Posted: September 9th, 2016

Sunday marks the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, the date that altered the trajectory of America’s national security apparatus. The country’s focus turned from defending against hostile nation-states to undertaking significant counterterrorism measures and bureaucratic reforms in the wake of an unprecedented terrorist threat.

The concentrated effort to combat terrorism became known as the War on Terror, a phrase coined by then U.S. President George W. Bush in a speech delivered before a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001. “Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there,” Bush declared. “It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated,” the 43rd President affirmed.

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