{"id":32478,"date":"2025-10-11T12:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=32478"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:04:18","slug":"war-department-launches-new-counter-narcotics-task-force-under-trump-directive-to-crush-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=32478","title":{"rendered":"War Department launches new counter-narcotics task force under Trump directive to crush cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday announced that the Department of War (DOW) is establishing a new counter-narcotics Joint Task Force in the Caribbean Sea.\u00a0<br \/>\nHegseth said the task force\u2019s aim would be to \u2018crush the cartels, stop the poison, and keep America safe. The message is clear: if you traffic drugs toward our shores, we will stop you cold.\u2019<br \/>\nThe task force is launching at the direction of President Donald Trump, he said, in the SOUTHCOM area, which covers the Caribbean and Latin America.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Southern Command said in a release that the task force was being launched under the II Marine Expeditionary Force on Friday \u2018to synchronize and augment counter-narcotics efforts across the Western Hemisphere.\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018Transnational criminal organizations threaten the security, prosperity, and health of our hemisphere,\u2019 Admiral Alvin Holsey, the commander of SOUTHCOM, said in a statement. \u2018By forming a JTF around II MEF headquarters, we enhance our ability to detect, disrupt, and dismantle illicit trafficking networks faster and at greater depth \u2013 together with our U.S. and partner-nation counterparts.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the administration has begun strikes against boats in the Caribbean it says are linked to drug trafficking networks.<br \/>\nThe administration has conducted a series of fatal strikes against four small boats believed to be carrying drugs over the last few months.<br \/>\nIt said 21 people were killed in the strikes. \u00a0<br \/>\nThe attacks have alarmed Democratic lawmakers as the administration hasn\u2019t detailed what evidence it had against the targeted boats or their passengers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/godzillanewz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pete-hegseth-speaking-800x450.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday announced that the Department of War (DOW) is&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[230,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}