President Donald J. Trump has all but wiped the Islamic State off the face of the earth, a drastic change in the war on terror compared to the previous administration. In his administration’s first 11 months alone, the military has freed twice as many people and recaptured twice as much land as under the previous 18 months, reports the Washington Examiner.

President Trump promised as a presidential candidate to “bomb the hell out of ISIS” and destroy the terrorist group once and for all. Since January, ISIS has dwindled from 35,000 members down to 1,000. Perhaps more astonishingly is the decrease in amount of land that the Islamic extremist group controls. When Trump assumed office, ISIS controlled nearly 17,000 square miles of land. Today, they control only 1,900 square miles.

More specifically, U.S. backed forces have liberated nearly 5.3 million people. The pinnacle of this liberation was the fall of the self-proclaimed capital of ISIS, Mosul. The northern Iraqi city underwent what was described as “the most significant urban combat to take place since World War II.”

Many in the military credit what some may describe as a hands-off approach by Donald Trump. That is to say that rather than hamper the military and top commanders with bureaucratic politically correct nonsense, the commander-in-chief allows them to do what they do best- kill bad guys.