{"id":350089,"date":"2025-11-17T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=350089"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:49:14","slug":"operation-southern-spear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/operation-southern-spear\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>News: <\/strong>U.S.A Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR to combat narco-terrorism, highlighting growing military tensions in the Latin American region, especially with Venezuela.<\/p>\n<h2>About Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/defensescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/9386384-e1763147663987.jpg?resize=378%2C270&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR\" width=\"378\" height=\"270\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Defence Scoop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Launched by: <\/strong>U.S. Ministry of War (Defence)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Objective<\/strong>: To defend the <strong>U.S.A homeland, combat narco-terrorism, and secure the Western Hemisphere from drugs<\/strong>, particularly those coming from <strong>Venezuela<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">The operation is <strong>part of broader efforts<\/strong> to curb drug trafficking and its devastating effects on U.S.A citizens.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Background:<\/strong> The operation comes amid increasing tension between the U.S.A and <strong>Venezuela<\/strong>. U.S.A has accused Venezuela of being involved in illegal drug trafficking.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">The operation will involve <strong>military strikes<\/strong> and <strong>surveillance efforts<\/strong> to target drug trafficking boats operating in the Caribbean and surrounding regions.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">The operation builds on a <strong>pre-existing campaign<\/strong> (launched in January) that integrates <strong>robotic and autonomous systems<\/strong> (RAS) for detecting and surveilling drug trafficking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: U.S.A Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR to combat narco-terrorism, highlighting growing military tensions in the Latin American region, especially with Venezuela. About Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR Launched by: U.S. Ministry of War (Defence) Objective: To defend the U.S.A homeland, combat narco-terrorism, and secure the Western Hemisphere from drugs, particularly those coming from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/operation-southern-spear\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11959,164,12039],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-350089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-defence","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}