Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points – Operation Absolute Resolve relied on overwhelming airpower to blind Venezuela’s defenses and enable the capture of Nicolás Maduro—but the...
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The Treaty
Key Points and Summary – Dr. Ted Galen Carpenter argues the Trump administration is inflating Venezuela into a major U.S. security threat to justify...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The United States has massed a powerful naval force in the Caribbean as part of Southern Command’s pressure campaign...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – A U.S. ground invasion of Venezuela is highly unlikely—but if it happened, the real war would start after Maduro...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. military buildup around Venezuela is no routine counternarcotics mission. -Washington is assembling a carrier strike group, amphibious...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Could Venezuela actually threaten the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group in the Caribbean? Expert Reuben F. Johnson’s...
The Treaty
Key Points and Summary on a Possible Venezuela War – Calls for Trump to remove Nicolás Maduro by force ignore the hard lessons of...
The Treaty
Key Points and Summary – The “Ledeen Doctrine”—the neoconservative idea that the U.S. must periodically crush a small nation to demonstrate power—appears to be...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – Any U.S. war in Venezuela would be slow, costly, and strategically self-defeating. Caracas’s escalation over Guyana, tight ties to Russia, China,...