25 Years After 9/11: U.S. Still Learning Counterterrorism Lessons Amid Persistent Threats

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks reshaped the modern world, the United States finds itself in a sobering moment of reckoning: the threats that prompted an era of unprecedented security expansion have not disappeared, and the institutions built to counter them carry the weight of their own unlearned lessons. Federal authorities have issued warnings ahead of the anniversary noting that foreign terrorist organizations continue to encourage attacks, while security experts invoke the phrase 'institutional neglect' to describe not a failure of resources, but a failure of wisdom. The