Doug Altner's Articles
Politics & Rights
Letters and Replies, Spring 2010
Doug Altner February 20, 2010
Doug Altner answers a letter about the Barbary pirate wars.
Politics & Rights
The Barbary Wars and Their Lesson for Combating Piracy Today
Doug Altner November 20, 2009
Examines the key events surrounding the Barbary Wars (two wars the United States fought in the early 19th century to end North African piracy), zeros in on the reasons why the First Barbary War failed to end the pirate attacks but the second succeeded, and draws from this remarkable and clarifying history a vital lesson for the United States today.