BySara Dorn,
Forbes Staff.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent the Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier to the Caribbean Friday in a major escalation of the Trump administration’s military campaign against Latin American drug cartels.
Hegseth deployed the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Caribbean “in support of the President’s directive to dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations and counter narco-terrorism,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced Friday on X.
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