Lessons Learned (and Unlearned) from the GWOT
The Net Assessment crew reflect on the Global War on Terror

In this show, the Net Assessment crew ponders the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Twenty-five years after 9/11 and five years after the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, what lessons have we learned about warfare? Does our experience in Afghanistan, and now in Iran, demonstrate that the American military has an outsized fixation on lethality?

To better prepare for future conflicts, how should strategists think about how adversary human networks behave? Attas for former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, and grievances for Argentina’s Javier Milei threatening to retake the Falklands.

*The Net Assessment Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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