So This Is What ‘America First’ Looks Like

New America's data on U.S. strikes in Somalia was cited in The Atlantic in a piece on what the campaign reveals about Trump's national security strategy:

Yet just one week earlier, according to local media, dozens of U.S. Special Forces soldiers in northeast Somalia killed at least five suspected members of ISIS-Somalia, an Islamic State affiliate, during an hours-long gunfight. (United States Africa Command, which is responsible for U.S. military operations on the continent, has not publicly confirmed its forces were there.) That was on top of the more than 100 U.S. missile strikes in Somalia so far this year, a much higher pace of attacks than either the 51 strikes during the entire Biden administration or the 219 strikes over the four years of Trump’s first term, most of which targeted ISIS-Somalia’s rival al-Qaeda affiliate, al-Shabaab. President Barack Obama launched 48 strikes in the country during his two terms, according to statistics from New America, a think tank based in Washington, D.C.

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