US military strikes fell 54% in Biden's first year compared to Trump's last, monitoring group says
Charles Davis
18 hours ago
President Joe Biden has overseen a 54% drop in US airstrikes during his first year in office, according to the monitoring group Airwars. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The US military carried out 439 aerial attacks in 2021, a 54% drop from 2020 under President Trump.
The vast majority of airstrikes in 2021 happened in Afghanistan before the US withdrawal.
Outside of Afghanistan, the US carried out just 67 airstrikes, according to official military data.
President Joe Biden's decision to end the US war in Afghanistan ended in disaster: a drone strike that killed 10 innocent civilians, including children. But a new report finds that such airstrikes, overall, have dramatically fallen in Biden's first year.
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-strikes-fall-under-biden-monitoring-group-says-2021-12
