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Do you have a source for that quote about dropped ordnance? I’d be very surprised if he beat out the strategic bombing and artillery shelling of WW2.

• tracker1 7y ago
  Here's an article with stats from 2015 and 2016... I spent a few minutes trying to find an article I recall from around 2014 or so, but unable to find it. There's a lot of information out there, and the number of drone strikes are incredibly large. I think the record under Trump has been roughly the same, but it's a dramatic change over before Obama. The kiloton size may or may not be smaller. More targeted drone/missile strikes vs bombs. But I believe the number of drops is much larger. Frankly, I'd love to see most of our foreign deployments dramatically scaled back. I just don't think the mentality that nobody should provide any kind of technical services to the government would only make things worse, not better overall, and that specific criticisms shouldn't be part of decisions of infrastructure use. https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article124842824.html https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/artic...
  • ericd 7y ago
    That article seems to imply in the 10s of thousands per year, which is certainly a lot of airstrikes. US and Britain dropped something like 3 million tons of bombs during the strategic bombing of WW2, though. IIRC the 500 pound bomb was the most common. And then there’s tens of millions of artillery shells, if you’re counting all ordnance. Vietnam war had a huge amount of bombing too, with cluster bombs and the like. I’d be a bit surprised if Obama made the top 5, but maybe.