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BySara Dorn,
Forbes Staff.
The U.S. military struck a suspected drug boat Wednesday in the Pacific Ocean, expanding its crackdown on so-called narco-terrorists outside of the Caribbean Sea for the first time since it began the strikes, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
The strike killed two on board, Hegseth announced Wednesday, writing on X “the vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route, and carrying narcotics.”
