Recently, the U.S. military has killed 11 individuals in strikes against three boats that were suspected of drug trafficking in the Pacific and Caribbean. These incidents are part of a larger operation by the Trump administration that has resulted in the deaths of over 130 individuals since September. Although the U.S. Southern Command has asserted that these boats were "narco-terrorists" who were operating on known routes of drug smuggling, no physical evidence of drug trafficking has been presented to the public. The Trump administration has justified these killings by declaring drug cartels to be enemy combatants in an armed conflict. However, these killings have been contested by legal scholars and the families of the victims as "lawless killings" that are in violation of international law.