The now-popular “ending endless wars” slogan has generated more political rhetoric than real policy changes. David Sterman, senior policy analyst at New America, helps define the concept of “endless war” as a strategy based on unachievable objectives and offers practical policy solutions for a substantive shift away from the War on Terror.
Show Notes
- David Sterman bio
- David Sterman, “Defining Endless Wars: The First Step Towards Ending Them,” New America, January 26, 2021.
- Peter Bergen, David Sterman, and Melissa Salyk-Virk, “America’s Counterterrorism Wars: Tracking the United States’s Drone Strikes and Other Operations in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya,” New America, June 17, 2021.
