America has allowed the global war on terror to reduce its national identity to what it is against, writes Gina M. Bennett

State-sanctioned, organized armed conflict has been a regular occurrence in the nation’s history, writes Aaron O'Connell

William B. Quandt describes how reassessing goals and shifts in public opinion generally bring a halt to seemingly intractable conflicts

One of the least learned lessons of America's involvement in Indochina is that a happy ending does not require victory, writes Brantly Womack

Current counterterrorism operations are often indistinguishable from interstate war, says Allan C. Stam

Technologies developed for the endless war are also posing significant challenges to our assumptions about personal privacy, says Ashley Deeks in War on the Rocks

“For the first time ever,” writes Steven Wertheim in the New Statesman, “the presidential nominees of both major parties are promising to end the ‘endless’ or ‘forever’ wars” 

Katie Bo Williams explains why, although lawmakers across both parties profess to want to get out of the “endless wars,” very few are willing to actually vote for it