A strike, as defined in the CJTF releases, means one or more kinetic events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single, sometimes cumulative effect for that location.

Here's January 3:

Near Al Shadaddi, three strikes engaged two ISIL tactical units; destroyed a VBIED, a VBIED storage facility, and a fighting position; and damaged a repeater box and communications tower.

. Near Ar Raqqah, seven strikes engaged five ISIL tactical units; destroyed a VBIED, a VBIED storage facility, a weapons cache, and 11 fighting positions; and suppressed an ISIL tactical unit.

. Near Al Tanf, one strike destroyed an ISIL repeater box, two repeater antennas, and two solar panels.

. Near Ayn Isa, three strikes engaged two ISIL tactical units, destroyed a fighting position, and disabled an ISIL armored vehicle.

. Near Dayr Az Zawr, seven strikes destroyed two excavators, one bulldozer, two oil well heads, 13 oil construction vehicles, four cranes, a piece of engineering equipment, and seven front-end loaders.

So that's 21 "strikes", what the CFR calls "bombs" but are probably hellfire missiles, against 67 targets, in Iraq alone. Worthy of note: we have no official "troops" in Iraq. We've got 450 "advisors" there. The "striker" is probably this guy:

(potentially six "strikes" right there)

By way of comparison, Desert Shield was 265,000 strikes over the course of two months.

To be clear: 26,000 hellfire missiles, at 20 lbs of high explosive and $100k each, to do dumb shit like blow up solar panels, is fucking appalling. And it's clearly more than that. But you can't be the world's policeman without bullets in the gun. And during the Vietnam War, we dropped 2.5 million tons of cluster munitions on Laos and they weren't even a combatant.

250,000 rounds fired per insurgent killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Let that sink in a minute. A 20-round clip is about the size of a pop tart. That's a thousand boxes of pop tarts full of high-KE death to kill one jihadi. During the crazy Obama time the damn things were $2 a round; clearly Uncle Sam gets 'em cheaper but under those rules of spray'n'pray engagement the Reaper out of Creech starts looking downright economical. And you're left with the notion that, holy fuck, 21 air strikes a day in Iraq and theoretically we're at peace except then you remember that everyone's got an idea about how to fight ISIS and every now you read a story about some city you can't locate on a map being reclaimed and you begin to realize that this is how that happens - reapers pumping $100k hellfire missiles into refinery equipment 20 times a day.

I'm steadily coming to the realization that liberals who hate Obama are absolutists while liberals who like Obama are relativists. Without saying much more, I'll observe that absolutists have a harder time finding satisfaction.