Author: Aki Peritz
Bio:
Aki Peritz is a former analyst and coauthor of Find Fix Finish: Inside the Counterterrorism Campaigns that Killed bin Laden & Devastated Al Qaeda. Aki has written for and provided insight on national security topics to numerous media outlets, including Fox News, National Public Radio, BBC World, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Foreign Policy.
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Feb 24 |
CIA, Intelligence Analysis |
Aki Peritz |
4191 Views
The most secret book in the world has been generating a lot of press lately. Just last year, and to great public fanfare, CIA mostly declassified hundreds of President Daily Briefs (PDBs) served to President Johnson, capsule...
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Jan 20 |
Intelligence Collection |
Aki Peritz |
3014 Views
Vice President Joe Biden the other day opened up to CNN’s Gloria Borger and recounted an anecdote about a severe financial hardship situation in his family. This vignette underscores that even the most important people in...
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Dec 3 |
Asia-Pacific, Foreign Policy, War of Ideas |
Aki Peritz |
6366 Views
Religious fanatics conquer the second largest city in the country, imposing a strict theocratic code of laws that is brutally enforced. The capital is menaced. The land is laid to waste. Both sides target civilians for ethnic and...
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Nov 30 |
Intelligence Collection, Terrorism, War of Ideas |
Aki Peritz |
2864 Views
Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has been weighing in on multiple national security topics lately, especially on waterboarding terrorism suspects. Trump had this to say to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “I...
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Nov 24 |
Terrorism |
Aki Peritz |
2273 Views
It’s almost Thanksgiving, beginning a six-week slot of time when millions of Americans are on the road or in the air. Last year, AAA estimated almost 99 million Americans — about a third of the country — were...
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Nov 23 |
Terrorism, War of Ideas |
Aki Peritz |
3523 Views
Greg Miller and Souad Mekhennet coauthored a fascinating article in the Washington Post last week about ISIS’ media wing, making the group the social media juggernaut that counterterrorism professionals have come to both...
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Nov 3 |
Big Data, Bureaucracy, cyber |
Aki Peritz, Pasi Eronen and Jani Antikainen |
2632 Views
This first ran in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Many cyberthreats are not just ‘technical’ problems. They are also leadership, human resources, and employee education problems. The popular conception of...
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Oct 29 |
CIA, Congress, Military |
Aki Peritz |
4597 Views
Like hundreds of Americans who have a penchant for C-SPAN and little to do on a Thursday afternoon in October, I watched / listened to parts of Hillary Clinton’s 11+ hours of testimony to the House Select Committee on...
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Oct 14 |
Bureaucracy, CIA, Foreign Policy, Terrorism |
Aki Peritz |
3144 Views
Columbia University’s Jeffrey Sachs is one of the most internationally recognized economists in the world. Author of several books—including a few you probably read in graduate school—he’s worked with Soviet bloc...
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Oct 8 |
Bureaucracy, CIA, Congress, Foreign Policy |
Aki Peritz |
2592 Views
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was in New York City the other day for the UN General Assembly confab; while he was sojourning in the Big Apple, he met with several Iran experts and former high-ranking American officials at a...
