U.S. Marine Corps photo by Chief Warrant Officer William D. Crow
April 30, 2024
Future Security Senior Program Analyst David Sterman spoke with the CATO Institute's Power Problems podcast about the state of the drone wars and the challenges posed by endless war:
David Sterman, senior policy analyst at New America’s Future Security Program, tracks U.S. counter‐terrorism airstrikes, particularly with drones. He discusses the history of drone strikes in post‑9/11 U.S. counter‐terrorism policy from Bush to Biden, the issue of civilian casualties, Biden’s quiet use of drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia, the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, the problems of threat inflation and secrecy in covert strikes, defining endless war, and reform proposals for how to rein in America’s unachievable objectives and make U.S. counter‐terrorism operations more transparent.
Listen to the podcast here.