With no big armies of their own, the small Caribbean states pool their forces through a shared security system backed by the United States.
Defense · Caribbean
—The problem. Most Caribbean states are too small to field a real army or navy of their own.
—The answer. They pool their forces through a shared Regional Security System based in Barbados.
—The members. Eight Eastern Caribbean states make up that core mutual-defense pact.
—The backer. A wider US program has supported thirteen Caribbean nations since two thousand ten.
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