'WASHINGTON—The U.S. raid that snatched Venezuela’s president capped a month of aggressive military action by President Trump that also included targeting alleged extremists in northern Nigeria, attacking Islamic State militants in Syria and threatening to restrike Iran.

The flurry of military moves underscored Trump’s reliance on the surprise use of force during his second term—an emerging doctrine to strike and then coerce that is likely to be sorely tested as the White House seeks to press Venezuela and other countries he targets to comply with his demands.

In returning to a form of “gunboat diplomacy” in Venezuela, Trump has largely spurned the usual veneer of armed interventions—acting without an Oval Office speech justifying the attack, congressional authorization, a promise of elections in a foreign land or even a detailed plan for its future.'

https://archive.ph/95tGr

Politics_And_Law

'WASHINGTON—The U.S. raid that snatched Venezuela’s president capped a month of aggressive military action by President Trump that also included targeting alleged extremists in northern Nigeria, attacking Islamic State militants in Syria and threatening to restrike Iran.

The flurry of military moves underscored Trump’s reliance on the surprise use of force during his second term—an emerging doctrine to strike and then coerce that is likely to be sorely tested as the White House seeks to press Venezuela and other countries he targets to comply with his demands.

In returning to a form of “gunboat diplomacy” in Venezuela, Trump has largely spurned the usual veneer of armed interventions—acting without an Oval Office speech justifying the attack, congressional authorization, a promise of elections in a foreign land or even a detailed plan for its future.'


Full unlocked article- 
https://archive.ph/95tGr