What happened to the drone war?

The Biden administration says it’s fighting terrorism with fewer “boots on the ground”; why is it also using fewer drones in the air?
In The News Piece in Grid
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Feb. 2, 2022

David Sterman was quoted in an article in Grid on drone strikes during the Trump and Biden administrations.

To the extent this development has received any media coverage, observers have tended to credit the Biden administration. In fact, the decline began earlier. “The bulk of what’s being discussed is the result of trends began under the Trump administration, although I wouldn’t really frame it as the result of Trump’s specific policy decisions, as the way the wars are going,” David Sterman, a senior policy analyst at New America, told Grid.