In October, Washington deployed the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group from Europe to the southern Caribbean – a move that consolidates what had been haphazard interdiction and training missions into a single, layered air-sea posture. It was billed as a counter-narcotics and freedom-of-navigation mission, but its true purpose is to deny Venezuela freedom […]
Explaining the New US Military Posture in the Caribbean
Geography and capability define much of the mission.
