The President in a counter-terrorism threat briefing at the National Counterterrorism Center in December 2015 (White House/Pete Souza)
Isabella McKinley Corbo, VICE News: Obama's military legacy: fewer troops, but a record number of drone strikes
While President Obama did reduce troops by 76 percent in Afghanistan and 97 percent in Iraq, he also sent 500 soldiers into Syria and is leaving office as the only president to serve two complete terms during wartime.
And even while soldiers were coming home, the brand of warfare was shifting, from boots on the ground to stealth machines in the sky. What sets the Obama war strategy apart is the sweeping and unilateral adoption of a shadowy fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles better known as drones.
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WNU Editor: This VICE News post has a video that summarises President Obama's drone policy. As to his military legacy .... he will be remembered as being the President who ushered in a new era of drone warfare that was regarded as science fiction only two decades ago.
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