62% of Americans support military action against suspected drug traffickers, survey finds
More than half of the respondents strongly or somewhat approved of using military force to take on possible drug traffickers.
Nicholas Slayton
Published Dec 4, 2025 9:53 AM EST
A little more than 60% of Americans support using military force against suspected drug traffickers, according to new polling data, as the Department of Defense continues to carry out airstrikes on vessels in the waters around Latin America.
That’s according to this year’s Reagan National Defense Survey, an annual polling of roughly 2,500 Americans on issues tied to national security, the military and geopolitical events. Of the respondents, 7% identified as veterans.
The results, released today, found that 62% of respondents strongly or somewhat approve of using the military to take on possible drug traffickers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was one of several findings in this year’s survey, which noted deep partisan divides on many topics but also a growing support this year for NATO and the defense of Taiwan and Ukraine.
The survey, conducted between Oct. 23 and Nov. 3, looked at what Americans thought of topics ranging from support for deploying the National Guard into American cities to confidence in institutions like the Supreme Court or the U.S. military.
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