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David Sterman, senior policy analyst at New America\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s unachievable objectives and make U.S. counter-terrorism operations more transparent. 

Show Notes

• David Sterman, \u201cHow Many People Does the US Assess it Killed in Somalia in 2023?,\u201d NewAmerica.org, April 2, 2024
• David Sterman, \u201cThe United States Should Provide a Detailed Accounting of its Operations in Yemen,\u201d NewAmerica.org, August 3, 2023
• David Sterman, \u201cEndless War Challenges Analysis of Drone Strike Effectiveness,\u201d Journal of National Security Law and Policy, May 6, 2023

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