The Venezuelan Drone Crisis

Worth a glance!
The administration is presenting the buildup around Venezuela as an expanded counternarcotics campaign. That explanation doesn’t hold water.

We do not fly F-35s to Puerto Rico for cocaine skiffs. We do not send a carrier strike group to the Caribbean for routine interdiction. We do not move an Amphibious Ready Group with an embarked Marine Expeditionary Unit for drug runners. Traditional counterdrug operations lean on Coast Guard cutters and patrol aircraft that find, track, and vector law enforcement onto small boats.

The force package tells you what planners are worried about. An ARG/MEU is what you deploy when you want Marines available for rapid ashore operations. Fifth-generation fighters are what you deploy when y

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