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2 books by Peter Bergen featured on Political Wire.

  • All the Presidents' WarsPeter Bergen · 1 post
  • Trump and His GeneralsPeter Bergen · 3 posts

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  • Sep 8, 2026
    All the Presidents’ Wars

    Just out: All the Presidents' Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America's War on Terror by Peter Bergen.

  • Jun 5, 2020
    Trump Loved ‘His Generals’ Until He Got To Know Them

    Just Security: "'We train our boys to be killing machines,' President Trump declared on Twitter in October 2019. He meant it as a compliment—and, as Peter Bergen shows in his powerful new book, Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos, Trump’s sense of military…

  • Dec 10, 2019
    Trump Called for Evacuation of Seoul

    "President Trump called for the population of Seoul to be moved during an Oval Office meeting when tensions between the US and North Korea were at their height, according to a new book about the president’s relations with the US military," The Guardian reports.

  • Sep 12, 2019
    Trump and His Generals

    Coming soon: Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos by Peter Bergen.

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