Ending Endless War: Lessons from the Counter ISIS War
In December 2011, the last American combat troops left Iraq. The Obama administration celebrated the withdrawal as the completion of a campaign promise to end the Iraq war. Fewer than three years later, the same administration returned the U. S. to war in Iraq to fight ISIS and then extended the war into Syria. In his new report, Decisionmaking in the CounterISIS War, New America Senior Policy Analyst David Sterman examines how the United States returned to war in Iraq, the role of preventive war logic in that decision, and what lessons the counterISIS war holds for efforts to end Americas seemingly endless counterterrorism wars. To discuss the report, New America welcomes Dr. Joshua Geltzer, a New America International Security program fellow and former senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, and Dr. Alexandra Stark, senior researcher with New Americas Political Reform program. Dr. Stark holds a PhD from the government department at Georgetown University. She was pr
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