Washington, Jan 14 (NationPress) A recent survey reveals that the United States executed more air and drone strikes internationally during the initial year of President Donald Trump's second term than throughout former President Joe Biden's entire four-year tenure. From January 20, 2025, to January 5, 2026, the US launched 573 air and drone strikes, and 658 strikes when counting operations with coalition partners, as opposed to 494 strikes and 694 coalition operations during Biden's four years, according to data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED).

The nonprofit conflict monitoring organization indicated that the US was involved in 1,008 foreign military actions in at least nine nations over the past year, leading to approximately 1,093 fatalities, in contrast to 1,518 deaths from 1,648 incidents under Biden's entire administration.

Among the fatalities attributed to Trump included at least 110 alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in international waters in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific, as reported by Newsweek. The toll from US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities in June remains unreported.

More than 80 percent of the strikes targeted Yemen's Houthi rebels between last January and December, resulting in over 530 deaths, ACLED noted.

The analysis from the watchdog described Trump's approach to foreign strikes as a 'strike first, ask questions later' strategy, emphasizing that the current administration has favored rapid, impactful military action as a primary response, acting swiftly and with less restraint than in previous years.

Clionadh Raleigh, CEO of ACLED, highlighted that the current pace of US military activity not only challenges established norms but also raises concerns about how these actions treat sovereign states. Operations in nations like Venezuela and Nigeria illustrate the swift transition to force, with warnings that regions such as Greenland, Colombia, and Cuba should be regarded as sovereign entities rather than targets.

Raleigh criticized the second Trump administration for viewing these areas as issues to be resolved, often associated with valuable assets that the US might seek to control, such as oil and territorial advantages.